Do you need a snowblower in Bowling Green, KY?
The machine for a Bowling Green driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.1 tons of snow on this driveway in Bowling Green, 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 Bowling Green is light enough for one.
What a Bowling Green winter brings
- Snow a year
- 9 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 6
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 5.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Bowling Green waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Bowling Green
- Nov0.1
- Dec0.8
- Jan3.2
- Feb2.9
- Mar1.4
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from January to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Bowling Green and its neighbours
Bowling Green is number 27 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin, KY | 19 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Portland, TN | 27 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Glasgow, KY | 28 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| White House, TN | 38 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Gallatin, TN | 41 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Springfield, TN | 41 | 6 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 Bowling Green Warren County Airport, 1.0 miles from Bowling Green. 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.