Do you need a snowblower in Jeffersontown, KY?
Your answer for Jeffersontown
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.0 tons of snow on this driveway in Jeffersontown, 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 Jeffersontown is light enough for one.
A normal Jeffersontown winter
- Snow a year
- 15 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
- 11
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 2.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Jeffersontown
- Nov0.4
- Dec2.7
- Jan4.6
- Feb4.7
- Mar2.6
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Jeffersontown and its neighbours
Jeffersontown is number 9 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyndon, KY | 4 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| St. Matthews, KY | 5 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Louisville/Jefferson County, KY | 5 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mount Washington, KY | 11 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Jeffersonville, IN | 12 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Shively, KY | 13 | 13 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 Louisville Wfo, 7.5 miles from Jeffersontown. 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.