Rain, snow find way to New Mexico

FOLLOW THIS STORY. IT'S THE FIRST REAL TASTE OF WINTER TO HIT NEW MEXICO THIS SEASON. PARTS ...  More »

FOLLOW THIS STORY. IT'S THE FIRST REAL TASTE OF WINTER TO HIT NEW MEXICO THIS SEASON. PARTS OF THE STATE WOKE UP TO THIS -- FALLING SNOW. THE METRO AREA SAW MOSTLY RAIN -- SOME PARTS OF ALBUQUERQUE HAD RAINFALL FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS MORNING. BUT HEAD EAST THROUGH TIJERAS CANYON ....AND YOU WOULD HAVE RUN INTO SOME SNOW TODAY. SHELTON DODSON HAS BEEN CHASING THE STORM THROUGHOUT THE DAY... HE'S LIVE IN SANDIA PARK WITH OUR TOP STORY... SHELTON: FALLING SNOW IN FALL. WE'RE JUST THREE WEEKS INTO AUTUMN AND HERE IN THE EAST MOUNTAINS IT HAS THE FEEL OF WINTER THIS EVENING AND THE LOOK OF WINTER THIS MORNING. THE FOLKS AT SANDIA PEAK SKI AREA HOPE THIS IS JUST A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME. AT LEAST A COUPLE OF INCHES ON THE GROUND THERE...THE CREST ROAD WAS ICY IN SPOTS AS WELL. AT THE TOP OF CANYON, IN THE TOWN OF SEDILLO, THIS WAS THE SCENE AROUND 11 THIS MORNING. ABOUT AN INCH OF SNOW FELL WHEN ALL WAS SAID IN DONE. WE MET ONE YOUNG MAN TODAY FROM BACK EAST WHO LIKES ALBUQUERQUE'S EVER-CHANGING, UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER: : 'The weather in Albuquerque has always been so random for me. It just changes so drastically, so quickly for me. And we saw snow up here and we just decided to come up and look at it since it's so early in October.' AS FOR ALBUQUERQUE... RAIN DOMINATED THE DAY. IT WAS SPORADIC -- HEAVY AT TIMES -- THE NORTHEAST HEIGHTS SAW SOME PRETTY GOOD DOWNPOURS WITH WATER MOVING DOWN A LOT OF THE MAJOR ROADS. WE ALSO MADE IT TO MORIARTY WHERE THEY HAD ABOUT THREE STRAIGHT HOURS OF RAIN THIS MORNING... TEMPS DROPPED TO BELOW 40-DEGREES THERE... NOT QUITE COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW HOWEVER. BY ABOUT ONE O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON THE SNOW HAD MELTED HERE IN SANDIA PARK... EVEN THOUGH IT HAS REMAINED PRETTY CHILLY OUT HERE. BUT THERE IS STILL SNOW ON THE GROUND AND A HEAVY CLOUD COVER HAS YOU HEAD UP TOWARD SANDIA PEAK. REPORTING LIVE FROM SANDIA PARK..., SHELTON DODSON, EYEWITNESS NEWS FOUR. OUR CREWS  « Less