Do you need a snowblower in Kennett, MO?
The machine for a Kennett driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Kennett, 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 Kennett is light enough for one.
What a Kennett winter brings
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 3
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 Kennett 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 Kennett
- Dec0.6
- Jan1.7
- Feb0.6
- Mar0.6
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Kennett and its neighbours
Kennett is number 79 of 80 Missouri towns here for snowfall; St. Joseph gets the most at 21 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blytheville, AR | 23 | 3 in | No snowblower |
| Paragould, AR | 29 | 3 in | No snowblower |
| Dyersburg, TN | 40 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Poplar Bluff, MO | 41 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Jonesboro, AR | 46 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sikeston, MO | 51 | 3 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 Hornersville, 14.6 miles from Kennett. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.