The National Weather Service Office in La Crosse, Wis., is seeking contacts for reporting snowfall this winter. Specifically, the NWS is looking for people who live in small towns or rural areas that would be willing to be called when 2 or more inches of snow has fallen.

The NWS relies on actual snowfall reports from volunteers to keep track of winter storms and keep the media informed of snowfall totals. This information supplements other sources of information, such as radar and snowfall totals from sheriff’s departments, road crews, and local airports.

Volunteers can call in their reports to the NWS, or the NWS will call when updates are needed.

Reports can be submitted via the Internet, at the following address: www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/

scripts/send_arx.php.

Interested individuals can send an email to todd.shea@noaa.gov.

Please include an address and a telephone number. The NWS will contact those individuals for future collaboration if that location is an area it still needs information.

The service has a home page on the Internet: http://weather.gov/lacrosse.