By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

It wasn’t much, but it counts. Hays did have a white Christmas this year.

According to official statistics from the K-State Agricultural Research Center, 0.06 inches of snow fell in Hays Sun., Dec. 24. The cold temperatures kept some of the snow on the ground for Christmas Day. The overnight low was 5 degrees and the high Mon., Dec. 25 was 25 degrees.

The snow was wet, yielding 0.04 inches of precipitation, the first precipitation to fall in December.

To date, Hays has received 28.10 inches of precipitation in 2017. The snow season has yielded 2.1 inches of the white stuff.

Tuesday’s daytime high will be even colder with a forecast of just 11 degrees. Wind chill values will dip as low as -11 degrees.