RI Weekend Weather Wrap – Aug. 20/21, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

Saturday 8/20/22:

A warm start to the weekend, with high pressure building in keeping cloud development down to just scattered fair weather cumulus and mares-tail cirrus. More humid with southerly flow adding low level moisture to the mix. Morning lows in the upper 60’s rising to the upper 80’s.

Sunday 8/21/22:

High pressure still in control, just repositioned slightly east. Some of the humidity will be scoured away by some turbulent mixing with dry air aloft, so we’ll have a better feel to the day. Morning lows in the upper 60’s warming to the mid 80’s with a southerly breeze continuing under partly cloudy skies.

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John Donnelly was born in Hialeah, Florida and moved back to Rhode Island and settled in Johnston, where he grew up until graduating from Lyndon State College in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology. As a child John always wanted to know how air moved, and he ran towards, not away from, thunder and lighting and various other ominous weather phenomena. He returned in 2001 to the old family neighborhood of Elmhurst where the McCabe’s, Donnelly’s, Walker’s and Callan’s have been since after the Civil War.