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Do you need a snowblower in Bardstown, KY?

Your answer for Bardstown

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Bardstown, 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 Bardstown is light enough for one.

What a Bardstown winter brings

Snow a year
12 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.4 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 10 winters
Days with snow on the ground
9

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Bardstown waiting a day is often a real option.

On a two car driveway that is about 1.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Bardstown

  1. Nov0.2
  2. Dec2.5
  3. Jan4.2
  4. Feb3.7
  5. Mar1.3

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Towns near Bardstown

Bardstown is number 20 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Mount Washington, KY164 inA shovel is enough
Shepherdsville, KY184 inA shovel is enough
Elizabethtown, KY245 inA shovel is enough
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY2615 inA shovel is enough
Radcliff, KY265 inA shovel is enough
Jeffersontown, KY2815 inA 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 Bardstown 5E, 3.9 miles from Bardstown. 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.