Do you need a snowblower in Abilene, TX?
The machine for a Abilene driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Abilene, spread over a few light falls. That is shovel work.
Get a wide plastic shovel with a bent handle before the first fall, and if you have a bad back, consider a cordless single-stage instead: the snow in Abilene is light enough for one.
What a Abilene winter brings
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 1
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Abilene waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Abilene
- Nov0.7
- Dec0.9
- Jan0.7
- Feb1.0
- Mar0.1
- Apr0.3
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Towns near Abilene
Abilene is number 10 of 252 Texas towns here for snowfall; Amarillo gets the most at 17 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetwater, TX | 39 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Brownwood, TX | 68 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Snyder, TX | 71 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| San Angelo, TX | 82 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Stephenville, TX | 90 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Mineral Wells, TX | 100 | 1 in | No snowblower |
Where these numbers come from
Read next: What a winter of snow weighs and Why storm depth matters more than snowfall.
NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Abilene Regional Airport, 4.5 miles from Abilene. A normal winter, not this winter's forecast. Snow is weighed at 6.24 pounds a cubic foot, fresh and fairly dry; wet spring snow can weigh three times that.