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Severe-weather spotters training offered in March
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2010
LOWVILLE — The National Weather Service is looking for volunteers to become severe-weather spotters and is offering a training session next month.
The free SKYWARN program session, sponsored by the Lewis County Emergency Management Office, will be at 7 p.m. March 15 at the Lowville fire hall on North State Street. It is scheduled to last about two hours.
Spotters send reports of severe weather to the National Weather Service in Buffalo through the National Weather Service spotter hot line or amateur radio, according to a news release.
For more information, call the National Weather Service at 1 (716) 565-0204, ext. 223, or the [Lewis] county Emergency Management Office at 376-5305 or visit
www.weather.gov/buf/spt.htm.
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Also in the works: The NWS would like to know if people would like to have SKYWARN training in Jefferson County as well. Please contact Fred Lampman or Joe Plummer at (315) 786-2654 or Phil Cox at (315) 783-8671. April is the target month.