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This is from adn.com Anchorage Daily News for the rest of the article. I know some of the glaciers are melting.

It's not in your head: The National Weather Service says that so far this is the coldest July on record in Anchorage.

The average temperature for the first 12 days of this month -- typically the warmest of the year -- was just 52.7 degrees.

That's more than a degree cooler than the second-coldest first half of July, in 1956, when the average temperature was 53.8 degrees, said NWS meteorologist Bob Hopkins.

On Thursday, it was actually warmer in Barrow (62 degrees) than Anchorage (54), according to NWS readings.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/07/13/2541345/its-the-coldest-july-on-record.html#storylink=cpy