According to this story at the Santa Fe New Mexican, snowfall is hampering the search for a missing police helicopter in the mountains east of Santa Fe.
Here at Casa NewMexiKen the temperature this June morning is just 59º at 10:45 am. The normal high temperature for June 10th is 89º. We may make it to 70º today.
I thought the weather was absolutely lovely today, rain and all. I heard that story on NPR on my way to work and I thought the same thing: Snow!?
Freaky.
Yep. Lots of snow. I was in the mountains with the Santa Fe SAR team looking for the lost hiker when the copter disappeared. We climbed over Santa Fe Baldy in a blizzard to get to the NW side, where the emergecy beacon seemed to be. There was between 5 and 10 inches of new snow above 12000 feet. The actual site was on the NE side only a kilometer from our path, but visibility in the storm was not much more than 50 feet much of the time.
A terrible night.
Garret posted a photo of the area near Lake Katherine where the helicopter went down.
The related blog post.