Do you need a snowblower in Cookeville, TN?
Your answer for Cookeville
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.8 tons of snow on this driveway in Cookeville, 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 Cookeville is light enough for one.
What a Cookeville winter brings
- Snow a year
- 6 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 12
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 5.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Cookeville
- Nov0.1
- Dec1.0
- Jan2.3
- Feb1.8
- Mar0.9
Snow worth clearing runs from December to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Cookeville
Cookeville is number 5 of 65 Tennessee towns here for snowfall; Crossville gets the most at 14 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossville, TN | 30 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| McMinnville, TN | 35 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hartsville/Trousdale County, TN | 40 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lebanon, TN | 47 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Murfreesboro, TN | 55 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Gallatin, TN | 56 | 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 Cookeville, 2.8 miles from Cookeville. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.