Source: Reuters article, 4 April 1997, copied from ClariNews online news service.
> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 9:52:36 PST > From: C-reuters@clari.net (Reuters) > Subject: Snow falls in Mexico's driest desert > Organization: Copyright 1997 by Reuters > > MEXICO CITY (Reuter) - Snow fell in one of Mexico's driest > deserts for the first time in almost four decades overnight > Thursday, only a week after temperatures soared > to 104 Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). > For the first time in 37 years, snow blanketed part of the > Pinacate Biospheric Reserve in the Altar desert in northern > Sonora state, a police spokesman told state-owned news agency > Notimex. > A state of alert was ordered along the Sonoyta-San Luis Rio > Colorado road as eight inches of snow covered the highway which > runs parallel to the U.S.-Mexico border.