Do you need a snowblower in Kennesaw, GA?
The machine for a Kennesaw driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Kennesaw, 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 Kennesaw is light enough for one.
A normal Kennesaw winter
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 2
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Kennesaw waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Kennesaw
- Dec1.0
- Jan0.8
- Feb0.7
- Mar1.2
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in March. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Kennesaw
Kennesaw is the snowiest Georgia town here for snowfall.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acworth, GA | 4 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Marietta, GA | 7 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Woodstock, GA | 8 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Powder Springs, GA | 12 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Holly Springs, GA | 12 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Smyrna, GA | 13 | 1 in | No snowblower |
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 Dallas 7 NE, 7.9 miles from Kennesaw. 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.