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Beaver Island October weather report, 1967

Also November 1967 Beaver Island weather report

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TypeEvent
Datecirca 1967-10
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
circa 1967-10
Kind
Weather
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The November 1967 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s October weather report. The average daytime temperature was 53.1 degrees, the average nighttime temperature was 40.4 degrees, the high was 66 degrees on October 2, the low was 28 degrees on October 28, and rainfall totaled 2.92 inches.

Evidence and limits

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

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Reports October temperatures, 2.92 inches of rainfall, rain on 15 days, and overcast conditions on most remaining days; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1967-11_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held six-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1967-11_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island October weather report, 1967”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-october-weather-report-1967/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 1967, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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