- Date
- circa 1967-12
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1968 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s December weather report. The average high was 38 degrees, the average low was 28.8 degrees, a high of 52 degrees came on December 21, and 5.5 inches of snow fell between December 22 and 30.
Evidence and limits
These figures are preserved as the newspaper’s local report. The issue does not identify an instrument, observation site, or official weather series.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- Reports December temperatures, snow cover, and snowfall through the 30th; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1968-01_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/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1968, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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