Mother Nature, get your shit together

This is a picture of my backyard.  Taken yesterday.  JULY 21.

That white stuff covering the ground?  Yeah, that’s hail.  In July.  COVERING the ground.  And I live in the northern hemisphere, where it is, theoretically, summer.

And to further prove my point, this is my backyard, 4 hours after that picture was taken:

8pm.  On the brink of being pitch black.  And the hail still hasn’t melted.  Which means that, in JULY, it was cold enough for hail to remain on the ground for 4 solid hours.

So in case you’ve been feeling like it’s not exactly summer, well, know that you aren’t alone.

Your stupid factoid for the day

Because, you know, life is always better with stupid factoids:

At five minutes and six seconds after 4 on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be:

04:05:06 07/08/09

This exact sequence will never happen again in our lifetimes.