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Beaver Island July weather report, 1967

Also August 1967 Beaver Island weather report

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TypeEvent
Datecirca 1967-07
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Date
circa 1967-07
Kind
Weather
Where
Beaver Island
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Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

The August 1967 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s July weather report. The average daytime temperature was 73 degrees, the average nighttime temperature was 53.9 degrees, rainfall totaled 0.87 inches, and fog occurred on six days. The report gives a July 22 daytime high of 84 degrees and a July 15 nighttime low of 43 degrees.

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

  1. The local report records July temperatures, 0.87 inches of rainfall, six foggy days, and the distribution of daytime and nighttime temperatures; it is not an official weather-station dataset.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1967-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. 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 · 1967-08_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island July weather report, 1967”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-july-weather-report-1967/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1967, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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