- Dates
- 1973-05-01 – 1973-05-31
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- weathercommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The June 1973 Beaver Beacon published Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s May weather report. May’s high was 69 degrees and its low was 27 degrees; precipitation totaled 4.86 inches, with half an inch of snow, a thunderstorm, and ten foggy days.
Evidence and limits
This is a contemporaneous newspaper summary of local measurements, not the underlying weather log or an independently calibrated observation series.
Sources
- Reports May temperatures, 4.86 inches of precipitation, half an inch of snow, a thunderstorm, ten foggy days, and the number of days in the 40s, 50s, and 60s; it does not provide the underlying instrument log. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1973-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held ten-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather table.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1973-06_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island weather report for May 1973”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-may-weather-report-1973/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 1973, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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