Do you need a snowblower in Clayton, NC?
What clears snow in Clayton
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Clayton, 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 Clayton is light enough for one.
A normal Clayton winter
- Snow a year
- 3 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 1
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Clayton waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Clayton
- Dec0.8
- Jan2.2
- Feb0.1
- Mar0.1
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Towns near Clayton
Clayton is number 47 of 91 North Carolina towns here for snowfall; Boone gets the most at 26 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knightdale, NC | 10 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Garner, NC | 10 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Smithfield, NC | 11 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Wendell, NC | 11 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Zebulon, NC | 14 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Raleigh, NC | 16 | 5 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 Clayton Wtp, 1.5 miles from Clayton. 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.