June solstice: Montreal summer starts Thursday at 6:07 a.m.

If you feel like Monday went on forever, just wait till Thursday — the actual longest day of the year.
The June solstice is the true harbinger of summer and begins at 6:07 a.m. That’s high noon at the North Pole, which will be tilted directly at the sun. In Alert, Nunavut, which is the closest permanently inhabited place to the North Pole, it’ll be a moderately chilly 2 degrees Celsius. At the South Pole, it’ll be pitch black and minus-45C.
Here in Montreal, we’ll h