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Visitors at Knott's Berry Farm in Southern California find one way to get rapid relief from the heat is to ride through a 300-gallon per minute waterfall on Big Foot Rapids. With temperatures during the past week reaching as high as 106 degrees, Southern Californians got a welcome break as coastal breezes sent the mercury plunging more than 15 degrees in some areas, ending the hottest April week on record. Northern Californians, meanwhile, awaited the arrival of a high pressure system Monday that was expected to drop temperatures about 10 degrees.