Alaska weather

Oh what a boring topic, yet so consuming.
This past year 2008-2009 has been the weirdest I have seen so far. Southcentral Alaska experienced summer 2008 with only a handful of sunny warm days--and by that I mean only one day the whole summer actually touched 70 degrees. The rest of our "summer" season was a dreary mix of rain, clouds and about 50 degrees. Then about the beginning of September frost set in, then snow, and then one of the coldest winters. Now 7 months of snow later we have this nice freaky beginning of May--7o degrees and sunny 3 days in a row, a few dips back into cold, (frost) but here we are mid-May and things are looking up again. By that I mean, even though it was 31 degrees this morning we should see high 50's this week and plenty of the yellow ball in the sky.
In the past 7 years I have seen a winter without snow that was almost completely in the 30 degree range. Then a few years later, we were stuck at-28 all of January. Summer 2004 had weeks of mid 80's. Now the volcano is expected to blow again--so let's wait and see what comes next....