Beaver Island May weather report, 1966

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Event

Date: circa 1966-05
Kind: Weather
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: environmentcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The June 1966 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s May weather report. It recorded 1.56 inches of rain, an average high of 56 degrees, an average low of 36.17 degrees, and a high of 73 degrees on May 22.

Evidence and limits

These figures are preserved as the newspaper’s local weather report. The issue does not identify an instrument, observation site, or official weather-station series.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, June 1966, “Weather.”
Reports 1.56 inches of May rain, average high and low temperatures, and daily temperature ranges; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.
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Beaver Beacon, June 1966, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published report; it does not expand the source-specific weather observations.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island May weather report, 1966”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-may-weather-report-1966/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 1966, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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