Do you need a snowblower in Franklin, KY?
Your answer for Franklin
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Franklin, 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 Franklin is light enough for one.
What a Franklin winter brings
- Snow a year
- 4 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
- 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 Franklin 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 Franklin
- Dec0.9
- Jan1.5
- Feb1.3
- Mar0.6
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Franklin and its neighbours
Franklin is number 36 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland, TN | 9 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| White House, TN | 19 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bowling Green, KY | 19 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Springfield, TN | 23 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Gallatin, TN | 24 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Goodlettsville, TN | 28 | 1 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 Franklin, 3.5 miles from Franklin. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.