- Dates
- 1969-02-01 – 1969-02-28
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s February 1969 weather report, printed in the March Beaver Beacon, recorded a high daytime temperature of 35 degrees on February 16, 17, and 22, an average high of 30.2, and a low nighttime temperature of 1 on February 13. Snow fell on seven days, total snowfall was 5.5 inches, and precipitation was 0.39 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 February's high daytime temperature of 35 on February 16, 17, and 22, average high of 30.2, low nighttime temperature of 1 on February 13, average low of 12.8, 5:00 p.m. high of 33 on February 10, 5.5 inches of snowfall, 0.39 inches of precipitation, snow on seven days, and temperatures in the 20s on 10 days and 30s on 18 days. It is a local newspaper summary rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1969-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eight-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published weather report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1969-03_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island February weather report, 1969”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-february-weather-report-1969/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1969, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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