- Dates
- 1972-12-01 – 1972-12-31
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- weathercommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1973 Beaver Beacon published Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s December 1972 weather report. December recorded a high of 40 degrees, a low of 10 degrees, 18.5 inches of snowfall, and 1.77 inches of precipitation. The reported 1972 totals were 76.5 inches of snow and 28.89 inches of precipitation.
Evidence and limits
This is a contemporaneous newspaper summary of local measurements, not the underlying weather log or an independently calibrated observation series.
Sources
- Reports December’s high and low temperatures, averages, 18.5 inches of snowfall, 1.77 inches of precipitation, and 1972 totals of 76.5 inches of snow and 28.89 inches of precipitation; it does not provide the underlying instrument log.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1973-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather table and annual totals.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1973-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island weather report for December 1972”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-december-weather-report-1972/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1973, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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