RI Weather for January 13, 2023 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

The cold front squeezes out what seems like all of the rain in the sky through the latest Friday the 13th morning, blown around by occasionally high wind gusts approaching 40 mph out of the southwest. Rain should come to an end around noon, but not before a possible thunderstorm adds some intrigue to the last stages of the storm. Temps stick to the mid 50’s through a good deal of the day, and then cool as winds swing around to the northwest and die off in the evening, midnight low around 40 under still cloudy skies.

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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.