Rare 'Strawberry Moon' on First Night of Summer, Plus a Chance of Thunderstorms

NEW YORK CITY, NY — Is this a sign we're entering the Summer of Love, Part II?

For the first time since the much-romanticized summer of 1967, a full moon — a "Strawberry Moon," no less — will rise on the summer solstice this year, according to the weather investigators at EarthSky.org.

The Old Farmer's Almanac is calling it "a rare event, indeed."

Don't get too excited: The full moon in June is always called a Strawberry Moon. (It reportedly got its name from Algonquin tribes who used it as a signal to begin gathering the season's ripening fruit.) Also: The moon won't actually turn pink Monday night, from what we can gather.

However, it will be kind of "amber colored," according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, due to an oddly symmetrical dance between the moon and sun.

"By landing exactly on the solstice, this Full Moon doesn’t just rise as the Sun sets but is opposite the Sun in all other ways too," the Old Farmer's Almanac reports. "The Sun gets super high so this Moon must be super-low. Even at its loftiest at 1 AM, it’s downright wimpy-low. This forces its light through thicker air, which also tends to be humid this time of year, and the combination typically makes it amber colored."

For this reason, the Strawberry Moon of June 2016 would perhaps be more aptly named the "Honey Moon," the Almanac reports.

Another perk: "The moment of full Moon is early Monday morning. So it will look equally full on Sunday night and Monday night. You get two chances to enjoy the Solstice honeymoon."

Unfortunately for New York City, all this sky magic has a chance of being obscured by a passing herd of June's notorious thunderclouds.

As of Monday afternoon, government weather officials are predicting a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms Tuesday morning, beginning around 4 a.m.

New York City "could be impacted by locally damaging winds, hail and torrential downpour" Tuesday, AccuWeather confirms.

Forecasters are predicting a similar fate for the first few days of summer in NYC. The skies will wax particularly cranky on Thursday, when up to a half an inch of rain is expected to fall on the city.

Lame. If NYC's historic Strawberry/Honey Moon is indeed obscured by this mess, here's a live stream from a clearer part of the country: