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Do you need a snowblower in Jeffersonville, IN?

The machine for a Jeffersonville driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 0.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Jeffersonville, 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 Jeffersonville is light enough for one.

What a Jeffersonville winter brings

Snow a year
4 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.3 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 10.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

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 Jeffersonville

  1. Dec1.4
  2. Jan2.3
  3. Feb0.3
  4. Mar0.3

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

Towns near Jeffersonville

Jeffersonville is number 85 of 88 Indiana towns here for snowfall; Michigan City gets the most at 65 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Clarksville, IN44 inA shovel is enough
Sellersburg, IN64 inA shovel is enough
New Albany, IN74 inA shovel is enough
St. Matthews, KY713 inA shovel is enough
Lyndon, KY813 inA shovel is enough
Shively, KY1113 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 Louisville Mcalpine, 6.4 miles from Jeffersonville. 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.