Your RI Weather Today, April 17, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

Cold front clears through in the morning with showers ending before dawn, cloud cover thinning by mid morning. A northwesterly breeze kicks up during the day as high pressure squeezes in with a noticeably cooler fee to the afternoon, highs in the low 50’s after morning lows in the low 40’s.

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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.