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Do you need a snowblower in Junction City, KS?

The machine for a Junction City driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.0 tons of snow on this driveway in Junction 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 Junction City is light enough for one.

A normal Junction City winter

Snow a year
7 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
21

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 1.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Junction City

  1. Oct0.1
  2. Nov0.4
  3. Dec1.0
  4. Jan3.1
  5. Feb1.5
  6. Mar1.1
  7. Apr0.2

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

Junction City and its neighbours

Junction City is number 35 of 38 Kansas towns here for snowfall; Dodge City gets the most at 19 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Manhattan, KS1718 inA shovel is enough
Salina, KS4416 inA shovel is enough
Emporia, KS5616 inA shovel is enough
Topeka, KS6217 inA shovel is enough
McPherson, KS6314 inA shovel is enough
Newton, KS739 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 Chapman, 9.6 miles from Junction 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.