Do you need a snowblower in Canyon, TX?
Your answer for Canyon
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.0 tons of snow on this driveway in Canyon, 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 Canyon is light enough for one.
A normal Canyon winter
- Snow a year
- 8 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 5
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 Canyon waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Canyon
- Oct0.4
- Nov1.3
- Dec2.1
- Jan1.8
- Feb0.8
- Mar0.8
- Apr0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from November to January, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Canyon
Canyon is number 7 of 252 Texas towns here for snowfall; Amarillo gets the most at 17 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amarillo, TX | 15 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hereford, TX | 30 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| Borger, TX | 55 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Plainview, TX | 56 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Dumas, TX | 60 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Pampa, TX | 66 | 16 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 Canyon, 0.8 miles from Canyon. 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.