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Beaver Island January 1978 weather report

Also February 1978 Beaver Beacon weather report

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TypeEvent
Date1978-01
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Date
1978-01
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Beaver Island

Summary

The February 1978 Beaver Beacon prints Bill Wagner’s January weather table: 35 degrees high, -2 low, 1.76 inches of precipitation, and 32.0 inches of snowfall, with reported averages.

Evidence and limits

This is a source-bounded local weather table, not a complete daily series or calibrated station archive.

Sources

  1. Reports a January high of 35 degrees, low of -2, average high of 24.3, average low of 11.1, average 5 p.m. temperature of 19.6, 1.76 inches of precipitation, and 32.0 inches of snowfall. It is a local newspaper table, not a calibrated station archive or complete daily series. 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 · 1978-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eleven-page February issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the January weather table.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1978-02_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island January 1978 weather report”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-weather-january-1978/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1978, “Weather Report.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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