RI Weather for Aug. 17, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

Some morning rain courtesy of low pressure paying a closer visit off the east coast on it’s slow tour of the western Atlantic waters. Much needed rain should be ending by early afternoon with stratus cloud cover hanging in there through the evening before thinning and breaking.

Tight temperature range with a high in the upper 60’s bookended by morning and evening lows in the low 60’s with a northerly breeze gusting to 25 mph.

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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.