- Dates
- 1968-12-01 – 1968-12-31
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s December 1968 weather report, printed in the January 1969 Beaver Beacon, recorded an average high of 32.2 degrees, a high of 48 on December 12, and a low nighttime temperature of 9 on December 31. Snow fell on 21 days, total snowfall was 29.5 inches, snow depth reached 24 inches at the end of the month, and precipitation totaled 2.62 inches.
Evidence and limits
This is a local newspaper weather summary. It does not identify the instrument, observation protocol, or an official weather-station series.
Sources
- Reports December's average high of 32.2 degrees, high of 48 on December 12, low daytime temperature of 20 on December 31, average low of 21, low nighttime temperature of 9 on December 31, snow on 21 days, 29.5 inches of snowfall, 24 inches of snow on the ground at month's end, and 2.62 inches of precipitation. It is a local newspaper summary rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1969-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1969-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island December weather report, 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-december-weather-report-1968-january-1969/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1969, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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