Rhode Island Weather for Feb. 7, 2023 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

A fair start to the morning, normal lows in the mid 20’s rise to the upper 30’s with a shifting light wind from northeasterly to southerly during the afternoon as cloud cover builds ahead of a quick trough approaching the area. We should have some rain and sleet mixed together during the evening hours until around midnight, then some breakup in cloud cover thereafter.

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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.