RI Weather for August 18, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

We’ll have to wait a few more days for anything like a decent rain. The 18 drops we had yesterday won’t cut it.

Cloud cover will be diminishing as the low pressure center continues towards the gulf of Maine taking with it any chance for further rainfall. Expect an afternoon high in the mid 80’s from morning lows in the mid 60’s with a gusty westerly breeze.

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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.