Do you need a snowblower in Fuquay-Varina, NC?
What clears snow in Fuquay-Varina
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Fuquay-Varina, 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 Fuquay-Varina is light enough for one.
What a Fuquay-Varina winter brings
- Snow a year
- 5 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 3
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 Fuquay-Varina 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 Fuquay-Varina
- Nov0.3
- Dec0.2
- Jan2.9
- Feb1.0
- Mar0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Fuquay-Varina and its neighbours
Fuquay-Varina is number 21 of 91 North Carolina towns here for snowfall; Boone gets the most at 26 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Springs, NC | 5 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Apex, NC | 10 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Garner, NC | 10 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Cary, NC | 12 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Morrisville, NC | 16 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Raleigh, NC | 17 | 5 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 Apex, 9.9 miles from Fuquay-Varina. 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.