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When Sperryville weather watcher Dennis Wingfield received a letter from D.C. last week, he didn’t know what it was. He later kidded he only knew it wasn’t a check. The envelope was too big, he says.
Still, it was good news. Wingfield received word he has been chosen by the National Weather Service to be part of its network to report severe weather conditions. The National Weather Service is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Wingfield added. This makes him “an official severe weather reporter,” he says.
Wingfield said the government had checked several people who were reporting their local weather conditions into the D.C. television stations. When they had gone
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