RI Weather for January 9, 2023 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

An early bout of mixed light rain and snow heads through the area in the morning, ending by 9 am or so as low pressure continues moving out to sea. High pressure will build in behind and quickly clear things away by early to mid afternoon. Morning lows in the low 30’s rise to the low 40’s with a light northwesterly breeze.

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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.