- Dates
- 1969-05-01 – 1969-05-31
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s May 1969 weather report, printed in the June Beaver Beacon, recorded a high of 77 degrees on May 28, a low of 28 on May 26, average high and low temperatures of 59.8 and 39.6, and 2.46 inches of rain.
Evidence and limits
This is a local newspaper weather summary. It does not identify the instrument, observation protocol, or an official weather-station series.
Sources
- Reports May's high of 77 on May 28, low of 28 on May 26, average high of 59.8, average low of 39.6, average 5:00 p.m. temperature of 52.4, 2.46 inches of rain, and temperatures in the 40s on two days, 50s on 17, 60s on seven, and 70s on five. It is a local newspaper summary rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1969-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eight-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1969-06_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island May weather report, 1969”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-may-weather-report-1969/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 1969, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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