RI Weekend Weather for September 24/25, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

Saturday 9/24/22:

High pressure keeps things clear and dry through the day, with breezes still high as Tropical Storm Fiona pinwheels over the Canadian Maritimes and maintains the pressure difference with the high pressure. Resulting winds gusting out of the northwest to around 30 mph.Morning lows in the chilly mid 40’s rise to the upper 60’s in the afternoon.

Sunday 9/25/22:

A nice start with clear skies and dry air gradually deteriorates with increasing cloud cover and the eventual commencement of some light rain showers later in the day and evening as a warm front approaches from the west. Morning lows in the low 50’s rise to the upper 60’s in the afternoon with gradually decreasing winds shifting to southwesterly and gusting still to around 20 mph.

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.