How often does Grandview get 10 inches of snow?

A storm of 10 inches or more comes almost never in Grandview, from NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals.

Do you need a snowblower in Grandview, WA?

Q: Do you need a snowblower in Grandview, WA?

A good snow shovel is enough here. A snowblower would spend most winters in the garage. A normal winter drops about 1.3 tons of snow on this driveway in Grandview, spread over a few light falls. That is shovel work.

The machine for a Grandview driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.3 tons of snow on this driveway in Grandview, 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 Grandview is light enough for one.

A normal Grandview winter

Snow a year: 10 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: 20

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

When the snow comes in Grandview

Nov1.7
Dec3.4
Jan3.2
Feb1.2
Mar0.4

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

Grandview and its neighbours

Grandview is number 15 of 91 Washington towns here for snowfall; Spokane gets the most at 45 inches.

Town	Miles	Snow	Two car, paved
Sunnyside, WA	7	10 in	A shovel is enough
West Richland, WA	25	2 in	No snowblower
Richland, WA	30	2 in	No snowblower
Kennewick, WA	35	2 in	No snowblower
Pasco, WA	38	2 in	No snowblower
Yakima, WA	39	20 in	A shovel is enough

Where these numbers come from

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Moxee City 10 E, 21.8 miles from Grandview. 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.

The two nearest weather stations sit at very different heights, and the second one averages 31 inches a year. Hills around Grandview can get a lot more or less than this.