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Beaver Island September weather report, 1978

Also October 1978 Beaver Beacon weather report

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TypeEvent
Date1978-09
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1978-09
Kind
Observation
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The October 1978 Beaver Beacon prints Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s September weather table, including temperature and precipitation figures.

Evidence and limits

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

Sources

  1. Reports September’s 75-degree high, 37-degree low, 5.13 inches of precipitation, and 22.65 inches of precipitation since January 1. 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 · 1978-10_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held nine-page October issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the September weather report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1978-10_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

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

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