- Date
- circa 1968-03
- Kind
- Weather
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The April 1968 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s March weather report. The average daytime temperature was 38.8 degrees, ranging from 22 on March 12 to 59 on March 28. No new snow fell during the month; 0.62 inches of rain was recorded, and the average nighttime temperature was 31.2 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
- Reports March temperatures, snow cover, rainfall, and nighttime averages; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-04_Beaver-Beacon
- 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 · 1968-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island March weather report, 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-march-weather-report-1968/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1968, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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