Do you need a snowblower in East Ridge, TN?
The machine for a East Ridge driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in East Ridge, 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 East Ridge is light enough for one.
A normal East Ridge winter
- Snow a year
- 4 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 East Ridge waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in East Ridge
- Dec0.3
- Jan1.0
- Feb1.2
- Mar1.1
Snow worth clearing runs from January to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near East Ridge
East Ridge is number 28 of 65 Tennessee towns here for snowfall; Crossville gets the most at 14 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Oglethorpe, GA | 5 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Chattanooga, TN | 5 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Red Bank, TN | 9 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Collegedale, TN | 11 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Soddy-Daisy, TN | 19 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Dalton, GA | 21 | 0 in | No snowblower |
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 Chattanooga Lovell Airport, 2.8 miles from East Ridge. 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.