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Do you need a snowblower in Centerton, AR?

Your answer for Centerton

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.2 tons of snow on this driveway in Centerton, 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 Centerton is light enough for one.

What a Centerton winter brings

Snow a year
10 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.6 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 5 winters
Days with snow on the ground
6

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Centerton waiting a day is often a real option.

On a two car driveway that is about 1.2 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Centerton

  1. Nov0.2
  2. Dec1.2
  3. Jan3.2
  4. Feb2.3
  5. Mar2.6

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Centerton and its neighbours

Centerton is number 6 of 39 Arkansas towns here for snowfall; Siloam Springs gets the most at 13 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Bentonville, AR410 inA shovel is enough
Bella Vista, AR810 inA shovel is enough
Rogers, AR810 inA shovel is enough
Lowell, AR1110 inA shovel is enough
Pea Ridge, AR1210 inA shovel is enough
Springdale, AR1410 inA 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 Bentonville 4 S, 5.1 miles from Centerton. 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.