RI Weather for December 22, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

High pressure begins to give way and recede northward, maybe in fear of the beastly low pressure system developing over the southeastern US. Winds will remain mostly calm and out of the east less than 10 mph, still a good day for launching rockets. A chilly start with morning low temps in the upper 20’s rise through the day with an evening high in the upper 40’s as winds begin to pick up and clouds thicken, rain likely starting around 7pm.

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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.