Rhode Island Weather for March 14, 2023 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

A deepening low pressure system sits and spins off of Cape Cod and swings oodles of rain through the morning, and then switching to snow in the afternoon as winds shift and bring cooler air into the system fostering the changeover from rain to snow.

We will end up with anywhere from 2” to 8” of wet snow in total, the lower amounts near the coast, higher amounts in the higher elevations. Morning highs in the low 40’s fall to an evening low in the mid 30’s with a gusty wind shifting from northeasterly to northwesterly, reaching 30-35 mph, maybe higher along ridgetops.

It’s a “D” day!

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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.