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Beaver Island weather report for May 1983

Also May 1983 Beaver Island weather table

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Date1983-05
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Summary

The July 1983 Beaver Beacon printed a May weather table attributed to the Michigan DNR: 70°F high, 25°F low, 56.2°F average high, 32°F average low, and 5.42 inches of precipitation.

Evidence limits

The figures are preserved as a newspaper report and are not treated as a station-certified dataset without an independent weather record.

Sources

  1. Reports a May high of 70°F, low of 25°F, average high of 56.2°F, average low of 32°F, and 5.42 inches of precipitation; it counts two days in the 70s, eight in the 60s, fourteen in the 50s, and seven in the 40s. It is a newspaper table attributed to the Michigan DNR, not an independently retrieved station dataset. 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 · 1983-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eleven-page July issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the May weather table.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1983-07_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island weather report for May 1983”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-weather-may-1983/, accessed [date], citing Michigan DNR weather report for May 1983, Beaver Beacon, July 1983. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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