- Date
- circa 1968-02
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The March 1968 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s February weather report. The daytime high was 37 degrees on February 6, the low was 15 degrees below zero on the night of February 13, below-zero temperatures were recorded on nine nights, and 11.5 inches of snow fell during the month.
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
- Reports February temperatures, below-zero nights, blizzard conditions, and 11.5 inches of snow; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1968-03_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island February weather report, 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-february-weather-report-1968/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1968, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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