Good morning! I'm Aaron Jolly. And welcome to the Iowa Weather Podcast — it's Tuesday, February 24th. Step outside right now and you're at 20 degrees. Cold, gray, typical February. But here's the thing.. By this afternoon, parts of Iowa are jumping 30 degrees. Winter's losing its grip fast. Western Iowa gets the wildest ride. You're starting at 22 degrees around 5 A.M. By 2 P.M.? You hit 54 degrees. That's a 32 degree climb in nine hours. Winds flip south to southwest around 9 A.M., gusting to 15 miles an hour by 11 A.M. Those snowbanks are going to melt fast. Tonight drops back to 23 degrees, with a slight chance of light snow or rain after midnight. The Quad Cities see 45 degrees by 3 P.M., but southwest winds roar at 10 to 20 miles an hour, gusting to 35. That's the kind of breeze that'll rip the newspaper right out of your hands. Tonight fall ...