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Whatcom County residents are likely to see their first temperatures above 70 degrees this year, even as a gray and drizzly spring is likely to continue into a traditional “June gloom,” further plaguing Northwest farmers and backyard gardeners.

Partly sunny skies with a high of 73 degrees was forecast for Wednesday, June 1, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle — one of the latest dates with a high above 70 since records started being kept in 1949 at Bellingham International Airport. Then it’s a week of rain, according to current forecasts for Whatcom County.

Temperatures normally hit the 70s in Bellingham at least once by March, and several times afterward, meteorologist Reid Wolcott told The Bellingham Herald. “It’s been unusually wet and cool, that’s for sure. It’s been day after day of light shower activity,” Wolcott said.