7:35am UPDATE: Add Cimarron, Pecos, Pojoaque and West Las Vegas schools to the "no-school-today" list, according to the latest on the weather from The Associated Press.

Santa Fe public schools and Albuquerque Public Schools' East Mountains schools will close for the day, according to APS officials and KOAT-TV.

However, Manzano High School remains on a two-hour delay, APS spokesman Rigo Chavez told ABQjournal.com.

Los Alamos, Wagon Mound, Edgewood-Moriarty, Estancia and Fort Sumner schools also are closed today, according to KOAT-TV's list of closings and delays. 

5:45am UPDATE: Albuquerque Public Schools have put the East Mountains schools, including Manzano High School, on a two-hour delay this morning, and Santa Fe schools are getting a two-hour late start due to the weather.

State offices in Santa Fe are also on a two-hour delay this morning, and for other weather-related delays, go to KOAT-TV's Web site.

And you'll want to keep checking on road conditions, especially to the north and east of our area today by going to the state Department of Transportation Web site or by calling the DOT's hotline at 1-800-432-4269. 

5:00am -- Winter Weather Advisory Until 6 P.M.: Forecasts differ on how much snow Albuquerque can expect.

The Weather Channel is saying our chance of snow today is 80 percent, with accumulations of up to an inch, but the National Weather Service is a little more circumspect, putting our chances at 40 percent and a total daytime accumulation of less than half an inch.

If you look out the window (as we did in our northwest neck of the woods) the skies seemed largely clear with twinkling stars.

And if you look at the radar for the past couple of hours, you'll see that the blotches of snow have moved north of Interstate 25 (around Santa Fe and Los Alamos) and south of Interstate 40.

But the weather service has posted a winter weather advisory for our area until 6 this afternoon, calling for heavy snowfall along the eastern slopes of the Sangre de Cristos, the Sandias and Manzanos into the eastern plains.

Strange to stay, it should start looking like spring again on Friday, but a little cool with a high of 47 forecast (today's high is expected to be 40, 20 degrees below average) under mostly sunny skies.

But then we're looking at another storm tracking our way next Wednesday through Thursday, according to the weather service. 

The snow is expected to diminish over the afternoon, but the main impact will be the icy, snowpacked roads, especially on I-25 from Santa Fe to the Raton Pass and I-40 from Tijeras to the Texas state line. 

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