By MIKE CORN

mcorn@dailynews.net

A couple small weather systems brought more of the white stuff to Hays and much of northwest Kansas Wednesday, boosting the snowfall totals.

At the Kansas State University Agricultural Research Center south of Hays, an inch of snow was measured Wednesday morning.

That snow, said Larry Ruthi, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service in Dodge City, came in two waves, courtesy of two weather systems.

One, he said, passed through the area Tuesday night, leaving a light dusting of snow on parts of Kansas, notably the southern half of the state. A second came through Wednesday morning, and was responsible for the inch of snow.

Dodge City, Ruthi said, only received a tenth of an inch of snow.

Goodland didn't receive any snow. Only about a half-inch of snow was reported in Russell County.

The heaviest snow, Ruthi said, started about Rush County and then worked its way north. The south half of Kansas received only a skiff of snow.

The Wednesday morning snow only contained about 0.04 of an inch of moisture, but that inch of snow brought the month's total to 12.1 inches.

That's well above the 3.9-inch average for snow over the past 30 years. It would also make it the fourth snowiest December over the past 30 years.