Do you need a snowblower in Dumas, TX?
What clears snow in Dumas
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.2 tons of snow on this driveway in Dumas, 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 Dumas is light enough for one.
A normal Dumas winter
- Snow a year
- 9 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.5 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 5
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 Dumas 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 Dumas
- Oct0.4
- Nov1.3
- Dec3.1
- Jan2.2
- Feb0.8
- Mar1.2
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Dumas and its neighbours
Dumas is number 5 of 252 Texas towns here for snowfall; Amarillo gets the most at 17 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borger, TX | 35 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Amarillo, TX | 46 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Pampa, TX | 60 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Canyon, TX | 60 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Guymon, OK | 63 | 3 in | No snowblower |
| Hereford, TX | 76 | 14 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 Dumas, 0.9 miles from Dumas. 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.