New Mexico weather is odd

I'd just like to say that I got woken up at 7:30 this morning.

By a thunder storm.

A meteorological event that, generally speaking, does not happen in the wee hours of the morning.
Nor, for that matter, are they generally accompanied by gusts of wind that were nearly shaking the solidly-built cinderblock dorms, nor by half-hour long torrential downpours of hail.

I could have gotten out of bed then and started my day early, but there are very few things that have made me feel as glad to be nice and cuddled under my warm fleece blankets.