Your RI Weather Today, Feb. 18, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

High wind warnings remain in effect through the morning, northwesterly sustained winds to 25 mph gusting to 50 mph all over, up to 60 mph in some coastal locales Strap it down!

Today’s high once again a midnight high in the mid 50’s and an evening low in the mid 20’s. Rain should be ending by 10 am as winds shift to northwesterly and begin tapering, after having rearranged many local landscape designs.

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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