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Fire Officer Bill Wagner reports Beaver Island weather for August 1976

Also August 1976 Beaver Island weather · 1976 August weather report

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TypeEvent
Date1976-08
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1976-08
Kind
Weather
Where
Beaver Island
Participants
Bernard W. "Bill" Wagner (weather reporter)
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
weatherenvironmentcommunity
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s September 1976 report records Beaver Island weather for August 1976: an 87-degree high, a 37-degree low, average high and low temperatures of 76.6 and 56.8 degrees, 2.50 inches of precipitation, and 17.30 inches since January 1.

Evidence and limits

These are monthly summary observations as printed in the Beaver Beacon. They are not a complete daily record, station metadata record, or independent instrument archive.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Reports August high and low temperatures, averages, precipitation, cumulative precipitation since January 1, and the number of days in each temperature range, attributed to Fire Officer Bill Wagner. It is a monthly summary, not a complete daily log or instrument archive. 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 · 1976-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue confirms the printed weather report and attribution.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1976-09_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fire Officer Bill Wagner reports Beaver Island weather for August 1976”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-weather-august-1976/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1976, “Weather Report.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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