Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, associate professor of geography and the state’s official climatologist, talks to Seven Days about how she tracks global weather trends, though she keeps a particular eye on data collection in Vermont to quantify the impacts of severe weather locally. Dupigny-Giroux says she’s always loved weather, the environment, always wanted to know what’s going on in the sky. “I’m constantly wondering what the air is doing,” she says, “or why there’s precipitation here and not there.” Read the story...