we have been punished the last few days with nothing but bitter cold temps and winds that made everything feel even worse. luckily today and tomorrow we turn things completely around and crank those temps up! the sky will start cloudy today but we will have sunshine by the end of the afternoon with a gorgeous high in the mid 30s. tonight things should remain fairly breezy but mild with the overnight low falling into the upper 20s and a breezy southwest wind. thursday will be not only the warmest day of the week, but the

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johnson... elias: weather is always first on good morning iowa... in with central iowa's most accurate forecast... meteorologist sam schreier. sam: (adlib toss) sam weather adlib: we have been punished the last few days with weather adlib: we have been punished the last few days with nothing but bitter cold temps and winds that made everything feel even worse. luckily today and around and crank those temps up! the sky will start cloudy today but we will have sunshine by the end of the afternoon with a gorgeous high in the mid 30s. tonight things should remain fairly breezy but mild with the overnight low

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