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What clears snow in Hereford
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.9 tons of snow on this driveway in Hereford, 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 Hereford is light enough for one.
What a Hereford winter brings
- Snow a year
- 14 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 12
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.5 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.9 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Hereford
- Oct0.6
- Nov2.5
- Dec3.6
- Jan3.2
- Feb1.7
- Mar1.9
- Apr0.7
- May0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Hereford and its neighbours
Hereford is number 4 of 252 Texas towns here for snowfall; Amarillo gets the most at 17 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon, TX | 30 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Amarillo, TX | 41 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Clovis, NM | 52 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Plainview, TX | 58 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Portales, NM | 70 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Dumas, TX | 76 | 9 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 Hereford, 0.4 miles from Hereford. 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.