Your RI Weather Today, April 8, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

Southwesterly flow with more sunshine allows for warmer weather to end the week. Rain with an exiting frontal system ends within a couple of hours of sunrise. Morning lows in the upper 40’s warms to afternoon highs in the low 60’s with a still brisk breeze gusting towards 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.