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ANCHORAGE - It appears Anchorage residents might have a valid reason to complain about the weather.

If the current trend holds, Anchorage is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in one year to hit 65 degrees or higher.

The record was set in 1970, when the temperature climbed over 65 degrees only 16 times.

But this year, with summer more than half over, the temperature has been 65 degrees or higher on only seven days.

And the near-term forecast is not warm and sunny.

National Weather Service meteorologist Sam Albanese said the outlook is for Anchorage to remain cool and cloudy through the rest of July.

"There's no real warm feature moving in," Albanese said. "And that's just been the pattern we've been stuck in for a couple weeks now."

"It's probably going to go down as the summer with the least number of 65-degree days."

You might even be able to make that 60-degree days.

This year, there's only been 35 days above that mark in Anchorage, well below the record low of 46 such days, set in 1971.

Weather service meteorologists also keep eyes on these figures:

• 70-degree days. So far this summer there have been two. Usually there are 15, and last year there were 21.

• 75-degree days. This summer, there's been none, so far. Usually there are four, and last year, there were 21.

And if another reminder is needed that winter may be more on our minds than summer: Near Palmer on Wednesday, snow dusted the Chugach Mountains.