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Just Ask Us: Ask the Weather Guys — Snowfall depths based on average of measurements

Q. How does the National Weather Service get the official snowfall totals for Madison?
A. If you look at snow on the ground after a snowstorm, you’ll appreciate that measuring snowfall is not an easy task.

Note: This is a new weekly weather feature tapping the expertise of UW-Madison meteorologists Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin. It will appear every Tuesday in The Wisconsin State Journal.