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Beaver Island weather observations for January 1976

Also January 1976 Beaver Island weather

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TypeEvent
Date1976-01
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1976-01
Kind
Weather
Where
Beaver Island
Participants
Bernard W. "Bill" Wagner (weather_reporter)
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
weatherenvironmentcommunicationcommunity
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Bill Wagner’s February 1976 Beaver Beacon report records January 1976 Beaver Island weather: a 35-degree high, a 4-degree-below-zero low, 1.70 inches of precipitation, and 30 inches of snowfall.

Evidence and limits

These figures are preserved as a newspaper-published monthly summary. They do not constitute a complete daily instrument record.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Reports January high and low temperatures, averages, precipitation, snowfall, and daily temperature bands from Bill Wagner. It is a published monthly summary, not a complete station log. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1976-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held February issue confirms the weather report and its attribution. The record uses the January report, not the March preview inserted at the end of the scan.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1976-02_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island weather observations for January 1976”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-weather-january-1976/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1976, “Weather Report.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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