Do you need a snowblower in Broken Arrow, OK?
Your answer for Broken Arrow
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.1 tons of snow on this driveway in Broken Arrow, 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 Broken Arrow is light enough for one.
A normal Broken Arrow winter
- Snow a year
- 9 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.4 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 Broken Arrow 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 Broken Arrow
- Nov0.8
- Dec1.7
- Jan1.9
- Feb2.4
- Mar1.9
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Broken Arrow and its neighbours
Broken Arrow is number 4 of 45 Oklahoma towns here for snowfall; Woodward gets the most at 15 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coweta, OK | 8 | 3 in | No snowblower |
| Bixby, OK | 8 | 3 in | No snowblower |
| Tulsa, OK | 9 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Jenks, OK | 11 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Glenpool, OK | 14 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Owasso, OK | 18 | 9 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 Tulsa International Airport, 12.7 miles from Broken Arrow. 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.