RI Weather Today, October 4, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

Our current and recent pattern will continue for at least another day, as Ian’s remnant are blocked off by high pressure to the north, keeping the storm in a holding pattern over the coastal regions of the northeastern US.

So another day of clouds and wind, but with added bouts of light rain with the slightly closer approach of the low center. Another small temperature range, stuck in the chilly and raw 50’s with northeasterly winds gusting to around 30 mph.

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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.