Do you need a snowblower in Elizabethtown, KY?
What clears snow in Elizabethtown
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Elizabethtown, 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 Elizabethtown is light enough for one.
What a Elizabethtown winter brings
- Snow a year
- 5 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
- 1
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 Elizabethtown waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Elizabethtown
- Dec0.8
- Jan2.0
- Feb1.6
- Mar0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Elizabethtown and its neighbours
Elizabethtown is number 34 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radcliff, KY | 9 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Shepherdsville, KY | 22 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bardstown, KY | 24 | 12 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mount Washington, KY | 29 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Louisville/Jefferson County, KY | 34 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Shively, KY | 34 | 13 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 Elizabethtown Wp Cs, 1.7 miles from Elizabethtown. 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.