Your RI Weekend Weather Wrap – March 12/13, 2022 – John Donnelly

by John Donnelly, meteorologist

Saturday 3/12/22:

Our weekend will start out with something of a rainy mess. A strong low pressure system rolls into town with rain likely starting a little after midnight and carrying on until mid to late afternoon. The rain will be heavy at times during the late morning hours with a slight chance for an embedded thunderstorm, also. We may end up seeing some snow mixed in at the end of it for an hour or two with up to an inch of snow piling up mainly northwest of Providence. Afternoon highs will be in the upper 40’s and then drop quickly once the front goes through to evening lows in the mid 20’s and a fierce wind shifting from southwesterly to northwesterly gusting towards 40 mph.

Sunday 3/13/22:

Something of a relief, but on the cool side. Morning lows in the mid 20’s rising to the upper 30’s in the afternoon with a fairly steady and strong westerly wind. Lot’s of sunshine through the day with bouts of benign cloud cover 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.