After a rainy start to the summer, Vermont is currently facing a drought. Vermont’s state climatologist Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux explains that there are various types of drought that are affecting the state. These include meteorological, agricultural, hydrological, socio-economic, and flash droughts.

“The last one is ecological drought, which means that the drought is so severe and ongoing that the landscape is changing,” Dupigny-Giroux said. “For me, as a climatologist, it is perhaps one of the scariest things to study and understand, because it means critters will no longer come back. Some streams will no longer have water in them.”

Dupigny-Giroux is the head of the Vermont Drought Task Force, which met for the second time since it's creation. Dupigny-Giroux said much of the convers

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