Your RI Weather Today, March 31, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

March will exit like a lion this year, as a fairly strong cold front will approach the area from the west and provide us with some powerfully gusty southwesterly winds ahead of the front with rain beginning in the evening hours, some embedded thunderstorms pounding through later in the overnight.

Warmer air, with highs in the upper 50’s towards 60 from morning lows in the upper 30’s, and gusts approaching and exceeding 40 mph in places from time to time.

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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.