Do you need a snowblower in Greenville, NC?
What clears snow in Greenville
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Greenville, 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 Greenville is light enough for one.
A normal Greenville winter
- Snow a year
- 3 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
- 2
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 Greenville waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Greenville
- Dec0.8
- Jan1.6
- Feb0.8
- Mar0.1
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Greenville and its neighbours
Greenville is number 36 of 91 North Carolina towns here for snowfall; Boone gets the most at 26 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winterville, NC | 5 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Tarboro, NC | 24 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Kinston, NC | 25 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Wilson, NC | 33 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Rocky Mount, NC | 35 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Goldsboro, NC | 37 | 2 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 Greenville, 3.3 miles from Greenville. 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.