Southern California’s unseasonably hot weather

Iron workers Robert Valenzulela (front), Eliezeer Perez, Abel Perez, and Jason Meza cool off in the shade during a lunch break from working on the new campus center building at USC.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Shiver me timbers! While temperatures soared into the upper 90s, Mark Freistadt, of Chilliwack, B.C., Canada, is soaked by a bucket of cool water off a pirate ship at Castaway Cove at the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel in Anaheim.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Canadian Kyle Rix, 7, cools off while floating in a shallow pool at Castaway Cove at the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel in Anaheim.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Two women take their exercise routines into the shade at Warner Park in Woodland Hills. Always a hot spot, temperatures in town were expected to hit the mid-90s.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Devin Garcia, 13, takes a refreshing Sunday afternoon bike ride through a fountain at Fullerton’s downtown plaza.  (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)

By late in the day Sunday at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, most of the crowd was already on the way home.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

These so-called umbrella girls, who normally shade race car drivers from the heat, shelter themselves from the blazing sun Sunday at the 35th annual Grand Prix of Long Beach.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Southern California residents flocked to Seal Beach and other coastal spots Sunday to take advantage of the cool breezes.  (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)

A rider guides her horse down a trail at O’Neill Regional Park in Orange County’s Trabuco Canyon, while Huntington Beach’s Janelle Axton and her son, 13-month-old Jared, go it on foot.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)