Do you need a snowblower in Clovis, NM?
Your answer for Clovis
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.7 tons of snow on this driveway in Clovis, 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 Clovis is light enough for one.
A normal Clovis winter
- Snow a year
- 13 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 12
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.5 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Clovis
- Oct0.3
- Nov1.8
- Dec3.3
- Jan4.3
- Feb1.6
- Mar1.7
- Apr0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Clovis
Clovis is number 4 of 19 New Mexico towns here for snowfall; Las Vegas gets the most at 22 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portales, NM | 20 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hereford, TX | 52 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| Levelland, TX | 76 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Canyon, TX | 82 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Plainview, TX | 86 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Amarillo, TX | 94 | 17 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 Clovis, 0.7 miles from Clovis. 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.