Do you need a snowblower in Elizabethton, TN?
The machine for a Elizabethton driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.8 tons of snow on this driveway in Elizabethton, 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 Elizabethton is light enough for one.
A normal Elizabethton winter
- Snow a year
- 6 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
- 6
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 5.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Elizabethton waiting a day is often a real option.
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 Elizabethton
- Nov0.1
- Dec1.8
- Jan1.9
- Feb2.1
- Mar0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to February, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Elizabethton
Elizabethton is number 7 of 65 Tennessee towns here for snowfall; Crossville gets the most at 14 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson City, TN | 8 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bristol, TN | 15 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bristol, VA | 20 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Kingsport, TN | 21 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Boone, NC | 33 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Greeneville, TN | 35 | 8 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 Elizabethton, 1.2 miles from Elizabethton. 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.