Beaver Island September weather report, 1965

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Event

Date: circa 1965-09
Kind: Weather
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: environmentcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The October 1965 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s September weather report. It recorded rain on 19 of 30 days totaling 9.69 inches, a low of 31 degrees with killing frost on September 27, and mixed snowflakes and fog.

Evidence and limits

These figures are preserved as the newspaper’s local weather report. The issue does not identify an instrument, observation site, or official weather-station series.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, October 1965, “Weather.”
Reports 9.69 inches of September rain over 19 days, temperatures, frost, snowflakes, and fog; it is a local newspaper report rather than an official weather-station dataset.
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Beaver Beacon, October 1965, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published report; it does not expand the source-specific weather observations.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island September weather report, 1965”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-october-weather-report-1965/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1965, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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