Carlos Gonzales couldn’t stop laughing as he dribbled his soccer ball through the grass at Woodward Park.

With the sun shining – a rare sight in the last few days – Gonzales was taking full advantage of a break in the weather in a pickup game with his father Hector and a few friends.

Even though it wasn’t his first choice of how to spend his weekend, it still gave him a chance to have a good time.

“My friends and I wanted to go camping this weekend, but it ended up snowing where we were going to go and we didn’t want to have to deal with that,” Gonzalez said. “Who would have thought in the first week of June that it would still be snowing in the mountains?

“But it’s better than being really hot like it has been too.”

According to Accuweather, scattered thunderstorms are expected today in the area with a high of 72 – 15 degrees colder than the typical average.

Forecasts have the temperature reaching 87 degrees by Friday, and topping the 90-degree mark by early next week.

“I’m kind of looking forward to the warm weather,” said Carl Juritz, who spent most of his weekend indoors. “I really don’t like it when it’s super hot, but it seems like it’s been too long since we’ve been able to enjoy the sunshine for a prolonged period of time.

“It’s late spring and it’s about time we get some of those temperatures that we’re used to this time of year.”

The late spring storm kept more than a few people home from the first annual “Ropin’ on the River” rodeo at Dell’Osso Family Farms on Saturday, and while it was far from perfect on Sunday the conditions were far better, said some in attendance, than they were the day before.

A warm jacket was enough to keep Michael Costa warm during the wind and rain on Saturday, but he could tell that it affected the turnout.

“It was unfortunate because it was a great event and it was nice to have the rodeo back here in this area,” he said. “Today it wasn’t bad at all, and it was just like this yesterday who knows what kind of a turnout we could have had.

“I’m just glad that we had a good day to enjoy this and that the wind and the rain wasn’t a big problem.”