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SoCal residents ready for summer swelter
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RIVERSIDE (AP) — Meteorologists say you can expect to sweat this weekend, with occasional thunderstorms and a break in the humidity just in time for Labor Day.Through Sunday, temperatures in Palm Springs will be about the same as temperatures in San Diego, National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Tardy said Friday.The coastal marine layer has retreated, he said, but it should come back Sunday or Monday and when it comes back, the sea breeze will cool off the coast and Palm Springs will heat up.Violent thunderstorms slammed into the area Thursday, hitting Riverside and San Bernardino counties especially hard. Residents were left to deal Friday with power outages, mudslides, flooding, downed trees and other messes.Firefighters were surveying damage to a Riverside fire station where a ceiling collapsed. Besides damage to the building, water ruined about $100,000 in radio equipment.Bernadette Ayala, 22, of Riverside, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise, that it was unfortunate the storms occurred on trash day in her neighborhood.“Every trash can on our street was floating,” Ayala said.