Do you need a snowblower in Hartsville/Trousdale County, TN?
The machine for a Hartsville/Trousdale County driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Hartsville/Trousdale County, 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 Hartsville/Trousdale County is light enough for one.
What a Hartsville/Trousdale County winter brings
- Snow a year
- 5 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 4
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 Hartsville/Trousdale County 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 Hartsville/Trousdale County
- Dec0.5
- Jan2.3
- Feb1.5
- Mar0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Hartsville/Trousdale County
Hartsville/Trousdale County is number 19 of 65 Tennessee towns here for snowfall; Crossville gets the most at 14 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanon, TN | 17 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Gallatin, TN | 17 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mount Juliet, TN | 24 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Portland, TN | 25 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Hendersonville, TN | 25 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| White House, TN | 29 | 6 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 Bethpage 1 S, 10.3 miles from Hartsville/Trousdale County. 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.