- Date
- circa 1967-09
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The October 1967 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s September weather report. The average daytime temperature was 67.4 degrees, the average nighttime temperature was 50.6 degrees, rainfall totaled 2.04 inches, and the daytime high was 78 degrees on September 6. The report warned that dry vegetation could bring wildfires before snow covered the ground.
Evidence and limits
These figures and the fire warning are preserved as the newspaper’s local report. The issue does not identify an instrument, observation site, or official weather or fire-management series.
Sources
- Reports September temperatures, 2.04 inches of rainfall, high fire conditions through September 20, and the expected October color season; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather or fire-management dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1967-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held five-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1967-10_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island September weather and fire-season report, 1967”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-september-weather-report-1967/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1967, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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