Do you need a snowblower in Enid, OK?
What clears snow in Enid
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.2 tons of snow on this driveway in Enid, 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 Enid is light enough for one.
How much snow Enid gets
- Snow a year
- 9 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 9
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
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 Enid
- Nov0.4
- Dec3.1
- Jan2.4
- Feb2.0
- Mar1.5
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Enid
Enid is number 2 of 45 Oklahoma towns here for snowfall; Woodward gets the most at 15 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guthrie, OK | 45 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Stillwater, OK | 48 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Ponca City, OK | 50 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Edmond, OK | 57 | 3 in | No snowblower |
| El Reno, OK | 60 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Yukon, OK | 62 | 4 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 Enid, 0.9 miles from Enid. 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.