What Time of Year?

Thanks to a heads up from Sheldon about weather on my thread on Skatelog.com, I have been looking more closely at altitudes on the route.

Having experienced heavy snowfall in New Mexico in late October or early November in the past, I am considering the time window for the journey needs to be brought forward by a month, or perhaps six weeks from my initial estimate. I was hoping to be starting in early November which would get me to the highest point of between 4 and 5,000ft in about the last week of November or the first week of December. This is probably a bit risky for the chance of snow at this point. It rather puts paid to my plans of ending up at the Miami Great Eskate toward the end of January as I would have to be back at work at the beginning of the month. However, looking at the Great Eskate website, the 2010 edition was in February so if that continues to be the case I wouldn't have been able to make it there with my original plan anyway.
If there is anyone out there with a bit of local knowlege of the typical weather patterns around the I-10 area of New Mexico then I would be most interested to hear about what happens in October, November and December as far as snow or ice are concerned. These would be a serious safety risk. I have looked at Weather Underground and found there to be occasional precipitation during those months but looking at the maximum and minimum temperatures it could be snow or rain. Local knowledge would sure be a help.

Rain is not a problem. I am a very experienced rain skater it just means a lot of bearing cleaning to get grit out or I will run out of bearings as they sieze up over night.