Do you need a snowblower in Ada, OK?
Your answer for Ada
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Ada, 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 Ada is light enough for one.
How much snow Ada gets
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 0
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 Ada 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 Ada
- Nov0.1
- Dec1.0
- Jan2.3
- Feb0.5
- Mar0.2
Snow worth clearing runs from December to January, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Ada and its neighbours
Ada is number 30 of 45 Oklahoma towns here for snowfall; Woodward gets the most at 15 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee, OK | 45 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Ardmore, OK | 47 | 3 in | No snowblower |
| Norman, OK | 50 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| McAlester, OK | 52 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Durant, OK | 56 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Moore, OK | 60 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Ada, 1.6 miles from Ada. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.