Rhode Island Weather for Feb. 3, 2023 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

Quite a powerful arctic cold front passes through in the morning, where we’ll have a midnight high temperature of 30 and all downhill from there to a following midnight low of 1. Oh, and the wind will be howling the whole time out of the northwest, gusting to 35 mph and dragging wind chills down way below zero. Abundant sunshine won’t do a bit of good, the air mass is just too cold.

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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.