- Dates
- 1977-11 – 1978-01
- Kind
- Observation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- weatherenvironmentcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1978 Beaver Beacon reports November and December weather and describes the January 26 blizzard, including two days of school closure, five- and six-foot drifts, and roughly two and a half feet of snow on the level.
Evidence and limits
This is a source-bounded local weather report, not a complete daily series, calibrated station log, or regional climatology.
Sources
- Reports Bill Wagner’s November and December temperature, precipitation, and snowfall tables, and describes the January 26 blizzard, two school-closure days, five- and six-foot drifts, and about two and a half feet of snow on the level. It is a local newspaper table and observation, 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 · 1978-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nine-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the weather tables and blizzard account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1978-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island November–December weather report and January blizzard, 1978”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-weather-november-december-1977-blizzard-1978/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1978, weather report and opening winter account. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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