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What clears snow in Gladstone

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Gladstone, 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 Gladstone is light enough for one.

What a Gladstone winter brings

Snow a year
11 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.4 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 10 winters
Days with snow on the ground
21

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 1.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Gladstone

  1. Oct0.3
  2. Nov0.1
  3. Dec3.5
  4. Jan3.4
  5. Feb3.2
  6. Mar0.4
  7. Apr0.1

Snow worth clearing runs from December to February, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Gladstone and its neighbours

Gladstone is number 43 of 80 Missouri towns here for snowfall; St. Joseph gets the most at 21 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Kansas City, MO611 inA shovel is enough
Liberty, MO819 inA shovel is enough
Kansas City, KS1211 inA shovel is enough
Smithville, MO1318 inA shovel is enough
Mission, KS1411 inA shovel is enough
Independence, MO1413 inA 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 Kansas City Downtown Airport, 6.7 miles from Gladstone. 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.