Do you need a snowblower in Clinton, TN?
Your answer for Clinton
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Clinton, 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 Clinton is light enough for one.
How much snow Clinton gets
- 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
- 2
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 Clinton 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 Clinton
- Dec0.4
- Jan1.1
- Feb1.5
- Mar0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Clinton and its neighbours
Clinton is number 36 of 65 Tennessee towns here for snowfall; Crossville gets the most at 14 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Ridge, TN | 13 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Knoxville, TN | 13 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Farragut, TN | 16 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lenoir City, TN | 21 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Alcoa, TN | 21 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Maryville, TN | 26 | 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 Norris, 8.9 miles from Clinton. 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.