Do you need a snowblower in Beatrice, NE?
The machine for a Beatrice driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Beatrice, 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 Beatrice is light enough for one.
What a Beatrice winter brings
- Snow a year
- 19 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.7 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 33
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Beatrice
- Oct0.4
- Nov1.0
- Dec3.0
- Jan6.4
- Feb4.9
- Mar2.2
- Apr0.9
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Beatrice and its neighbours
Beatrice is number 16 of 16 Nebraska towns here for snowfall; Scottsbluff gets the most at 40 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln, NE | 37 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Papillion, NE | 70 | 36 in | Gas single-stage |
| La Vista, NE | 72 | 36 in | Gas single-stage |
| Bellevue, NE | 74 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Manhattan, KS | 75 | 18 in | A shovel is enough |
| Omaha, NE | 77 | 27 in | Cordless single-stage |
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 Beatrice 1N, 1.8 miles from Beatrice. 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.