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The weather service was off by about 5 degrees

The marine layer will extend about five miles inland Saturday and Sunday

Devastated residents and their families returned to whats left of their multi-million dollar homes less than 24 hours after a wildfire ripped through the community of Laguna Niguel.

Before and after photos reveal just how devastating the Coastal Fire was on Wednesday. It started at 2.44pm and has set 20 homes alight in the Laguna Niguel neighborhood.

Santa Ana winds and possible record heat this week will flip to cool with a chance of showers by early next week, forecasters say.

Rainfall totals ranged from half an inch in Huntington Beach and Costa Mesa to over 2 inches in Coto de Caza, the National Weather Service reported Tuesday. Further rain is not anticipated through the first half of April.

Hundreds of demonstrators came together in Santa Monica Saturday to support Ukraine, a Boyle Heights park is getting a $5 million makeover, and the ACLU says LAUSD students were silenced for trying to pass out buttons opening campus police.

Five records fall during fourth day of rare winter heat wave

Temperatures will get close to 80 at the coast

A low pressure system also will produce 5-foot to 7-foot waves at the coast