Just days after the valley was blasted by temperatures typically reserved for summer, residents woke to gray, rainy skies Friday.

The late spring gloom is expected to continue through the next several days, according to the National Weather Service.

Daytime highs will reach the high 60s, dipping into the 40s and low 50s through midweek, said Bill Hoffer, spokesman for the weather service's Oxnard office, with chances of rain through Sunday.

Locals should expect partly cloudy skies on Memorial Day, with highs in the mid-60s to 70s.

He said the weather is not all that unseasonable for the region. "I'm on to that woman up there - Mother Nature," he quipped.

Across the mountains in Los Angeles, cloudy skies and rain is forecast through Sunday. Memorial day will see clearing skies with highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s. Lows willbe in the mid 50s.

Temperatures on the ocean beaches will be only a degree or two cooler.

Those heading into the antelope Valley will see highs of upper 60s on Memorial Day.