RI Weather for January 1, 2023 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

New Year’s Day 1/1/23:

Rain comes to an end overnight with lingering mist during the morning. Cold front does it’s work and clears things out nicely through the afternoon with highs again in the low 50’s with more sun than clouds. Temps cool in the evening to the mid 30’s as drying and radiational cooling dominate.

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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.