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Do you need a snowblower in Jefferson City, MO?

The machine for a Jefferson City driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.2 tons of snow on this driveway in Jefferson City, 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 Jefferson City is light enough for one.

A normal Jefferson City winter

Snow a year
9 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.4 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
16

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 5.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 1.2 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Jefferson City

  1. Nov0.2
  2. Dec2.5
  3. Jan2.9
  4. Feb2.9
  5. Mar0.4

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

Jefferson City and its neighbours

Jefferson City is number 54 of 80 Missouri towns here for snowfall; St. Joseph gets the most at 21 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Fulton, MO2319 inA shovel is enough
Columbia, MO2717 inA shovel is enough
Mexico, MO4419 inA shovel is enough
Rolla, MO4817 inA shovel is enough
Sedalia, MO5813 inA shovel is enough
Moberly, MO6015 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 Jefferson City Wtp, 1.3 miles from Jefferson City. 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.