RI Weather for January 31, 2023 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

A cold front sweeps through overnight with some mixed rain and snow ending as all snow around sunrise, totaling up to an inch, maybe two in the higher elevations. Dry air fills in behind the front, with a cooler high in the upper 30’s cooling down to late evening lows in the mid 20’s.with a northwesterly breeze gusting to 25 mph. Wind chills late will be down in the low teens.

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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.