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Beaver Island weather report for March 1977

Also March 1977 Beaver Island weather report

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Date1977-03
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ErasModern era
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1977-03
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Summary

The April 1977 Beaver Beacon printed Fire Officer Bill Wagner’s March report: a 52-degree high, 4-degree low, 38.8-degree average high, 25.5-degree average low, 5.29 inches of precipitation, and 18.0 inches of snowfall.

Evidence and limits

This is a source-bounded newspaper weather table, not a calibrated station log, complete daily record, or regional climatology.

Sources

  1. Reports March’s 52-degree high, 4-degree low, average high of 38.8 degrees, average low of 25.5 degrees, 5.29 inches of precipitation, 18.0 inches of snowfall, and cumulative snowfall since November and January. It is a local newspaper table, not a calibrated station archive or regional climatology. 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 · 1977-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twelve-page issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the March weather table.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1977-04_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island weather report for March 1977”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-weather-march-1977/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1977, “Weather.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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