How often does Bellefontaine Neighbors get 10 inches of snow?

A storm of 10 inches or more comes about once every 10 winters in Bellefontaine Neighbors, from NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals.

Do you need a snowblower in Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO?

Q: Do you need a snowblower in Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO?

A good snow shovel is enough here. A snowblower would spend most winters in the garage. A normal winter drops about 2.2 tons of snow on this driveway in Bellefontaine Neighbors, spread over a few light falls. That is shovel work.

The machine for a Bellefontaine Neighbors driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.2 tons of snow on this driveway in Bellefontaine Neighbors, 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 Bellefontaine Neighbors is light enough for one.

A normal Bellefontaine Neighbors winter

Snow a year: 17 in
Storms of 5 in or more: 0.5 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more: about once every 10 winters
Days with snow on the ground: 17

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 2.2 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Bellefontaine Neighbors

Nov0.9
Dec3.2
Jan5.7
Feb4.3
Mar2.3
Apr0.2

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 Bellefontaine Neighbors

Bellefontaine Neighbors is number 21 of 80 Missouri towns here for snowfall; St. Joseph gets the most at 21 inches.

Town	Miles	Snow	Two car, paved
Jennings, MO	3	17 in	A shovel is enough
Ferguson, MO	4	17 in	A shovel is enough
Granite City, IL	6	11 in	A shovel is enough
Florissant, MO	6	17 in	A shovel is enough
St. Louis, MO	8	14 in	A shovel is enough
University City, MO	8	17 in	A shovel is enough

Where these numbers come from

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from St Louis Lambert International Airport, 7.8 miles from Bellefontaine Neighbors. 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.