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Missouri and eastern Kansas are waking up to an unusually warm and breezy February morning across Kansas City. The air feels more like late April than midwinter. Temperatures already sit in the upper 50s downtown, and the warmup accelerates from here.
Highs climb to around 72 degrees this afternoon under mostly cloudy skies. South winds increase from 9 to 20 mph, with gusts near 40 mph. That combination of warmth and wind creates elevated fire weather conditions across northwest and west-central Missouri. Avoid outdoor burning today…