Severe-weather spotters training offered in March

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 county Emergency Management Office at 376-5305 or visit www.weather.gov/buf/spt.htm.