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Beaver Island weather observations for January and February, 1981

Also Beaver Island Weather January February 1981

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TypeEvent
Dates1981-01 – 1981-02
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
1981-01 – 1981-02
Kind
Weather
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
weathercommunicationcommunity
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Bill Wagner’s weather report in the combined March and April 1981 Beaver Beacon gives January and February temperature, precipitation, and snowfall figures for Beaver Island.

Evidence and limits

The published tables do not identify the instrument, observation site, or quality-control method.

Sources

  1. Reports January and February high and low temperatures, average temperatures, precipitation, snowfall, and counts of days in temperature ranges. These are the newspaper weather tables, not a complete official station dataset. 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 · 1981-03_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eighteen-page combined March and April issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the weather tables.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-03_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island weather observations for January and February, 1981”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-weather-january-february-1981/, accessed [date], citing Bill Wagner, “Beaver Island Weather,” Beaver Beacon, March & April 1981. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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