RI Weather for August 8, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

The heat pump will remain on at least for another day with afternoon highs in the low 90’s from morning lows in the upper 70’s. The southwesterly breeze will gust towards 30 mph.

Some afternoon convection will likely fire well to our northwest, but we should only see the tops of the thunderstorms as they gray the late afternoon sky.

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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.