RI Weather for Friday, Aug. 19, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

High pressure builds in kicking up southwesterly breezes and stable sinking air that will heat up to the upper 80’s in the afternoon from morning lows in the upper 60’s. More dry air in place with no chance for rain, which is nice because no rain, but bad also because…no rain. Dry as a tinderbox out there!

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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.