Your RI Weather Today, April 19, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

A low pressure system will roll through overnight with heavy rain likely and a thunderstorm or two in the hours before dawn. High winds gusting towards 40 mph and more expected through the same time frame, with gradual clearing and weakening winds through the day behind the cold front.

Morning and evening lows in the mid 40’s bookend afternoon highs in the mid 50’s with winds shifting from southeast to southwest.

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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.