New Mexico
Climber rescued after falling nearly 30 feet in Sandia Mountains
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Local authorities worked to rescue a person injured after falling nearly 30 feet while rock climbing Saturday in the Sandia Mountains.
According to Albuquerque Fire Rescue, a team responded around 11 a.m, to the Sandia Crest Nature Trail to assist multiple agencies with a hiker who reportedly fell off a cliff.
It wasn’t easy getting to them. AFR says it took their crews about 40 minutes to reach the hiker. Once they did, they confirmed the hiker sustained significant injuries.
Authorities then called in a five-person crew from the New Mexico National Guard. According to AFR, their Lobo One helicopter arrived at around 12:50 p.m. and hoisted the hiker up about 15 minutes later.
They identified the hiker as a 37-year-old woman who fell nearly 30 feet while rock climbing. The crew flew her to Cutler Aviation in Albuquerque where an ambulance then drove her to UNM Hospital.
New Mexico State Police’s Search and Rescue Operations and Albuquerque police, as well as fire crews and deputies from Bernalillo County responded to this operation.
Virgin Galactic is partnering with the nonprofit group Operation Period to research menstruation in space.
NEW MEXICO – Virgin Galactic plans a research flight on menstruation in space, aiming to study how microgravity could affect hormones and menstrual cycles on longer trips.
Virgin Galactic is partnering with the nonprofit group Operation Period to research menstruation in space.
The company plans to launch flights next year, and one of them will focus on the effects of microgravity on menstruation.
Two women researchers are currently training for the flight.
They say they hope to reveal how future space travel could affect hormones and the menstrual cycle, especially over long durations in space.
Grant’s Thursday Evening Forecast
Showers and thunderstorms will continue in eastern New Mexico tonight into Friday. Breezy winds will bring an elevated fire danger in the western half of the state.
Thunderstorms are firing up Thursday afternoon along and east of New Mexico’s central mountain chain while gusty south winds over 30 mph are driving an elevated fire danger across western parts of the state. Storms will continue spreading across eastern New Mexico through this evening, bringing locally heavy rainfall, lightning, small hail, and gusty winds. The winds will weaken later tonight, but showers and thunderstorms will keep going across eastern New Mexico overnight into early Friday morning.
A few spotty storms will redevelop Friday afternoon across eastern New Mexico, with a couple near the Texas state line capable of turning strong to severe. At the same time, breezy southwest winds will ramp back up across western New Mexico, with gusts over 35 mph creating another round of elevated fire danger. Storms will push east out of New Mexico Friday evening while winds gradually ease overnight.
Quieter and drier weather takes over this weekend. Temperatures Saturday afternoon will cool a few degrees but still stay near average for late May. Breezy afternoon winds will continue Saturday before lighter winds and warmer temperatures return Sunday.
Moisture will start building back into eastern New Mexico Monday, bringing a slight chance for thunderstorms near the Texas state line. Monday will also be the hottest day of the warming trend statewide. More moisture spreads into the eastern half of the state Tuesday, increasing storm chances along and east of the Rio Grande Valley by afternoon. Even deeper moisture arrives statewide by Wednesday and Thursday, fueling more widespread showers and thunderstorms through the middle of next week.
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