Do you need a snowblower in Boone, NC?
What clears snow in Boone
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Boone, about 3.3 tons a winter on this driveway, but it comes in shallow storms a small cordless machine can take in.
Before you buy, check the battery is rated to clear the whole driveway in one charge in the cold, or get a second battery. Batteries lose range below freezing.
What a Boone winter brings
- Snow a year
- 26 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 22
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Boone
- Oct0.3
- Nov1.0
- Dec5.2
- Jan6.6
- Feb6.7
- Mar4.8
- Apr1.0
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Boone
Boone is the snowiest North Carolina town here for snowfall.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lenoir, NC | 23 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Morganton, NC | 33 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Elizabethton, TN | 33 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hickory, NC | 38 | 0 in | No snowblower |
| Bristol, TN | 39 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bristol, VA | 39 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
Where these numbers come from
Read next: Snowblowers on a gravel driveway and Single-stage or two-stage.
NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Boone 1 SE, 1.1 miles from Boone. 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.
- The two nearest weather stations sit at very different heights, and the second one averages 67 inches a year. Hills around Boone can get a lot more or less than this.