June 2026 – Tap Talk

June 25, 2026July 2, 2026

TT082 – Understanding This Year’s El Niño with the Illinois State Climatologist

The promotional graphic for Tap Talk episode #82, featuring a photo of guest Trent Ford; and a quote from Trent: "Once we have an El Niño, we start saying, 'Well, how strong of an El Niño?' That's dictated by how much warmer the water is than normal. A strong El Niño tends to have a one to two degree above average anomaly. Super El Niño is when we get even up to two and a half degrees above average.".

June 11, 2026June 25, 2026

TT081 – The Other Side of Vermont’s Flash Drought: Stories from Public Water Systems

The promotional graphic for Tap Talk episode #81, featuring a photo of guest Sille Larsen; and a quote from Sille: "87% of our water systems fall in that category: very small, serving 500 or fewer people. When you think about drought emergency response — economy of scale is a thing. They still have to do all the same operational requirements and monitoring requirements, but just with much less resources available.".

TT080 – What We Can Learn from Vermont’s Flash Drought

The promotional graphic for Tap Talk episode #80, featuring a photo of guest Tom DeBell; and a quote from Tom: "The drought last summer was, by any measure that we could look back in the record and see, the most severe we've experienced. That August was the driest month Vermont had ever had, going back to 1895. Unlike other droughts, this developed really quickly. ".