Do you need a snowblower in Lansing, KS?
The machine for a Lansing driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Lansing, 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 Lansing is light enough for one.
How much snow Lansing gets
- Snow a year
- 19 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 19
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lansing
- Oct0.4
- Nov1.0
- Dec5.5
- Jan4.8
- Feb5.6
- Mar1.5
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Lansing and its neighbours
Lansing is number 3 of 38 Kansas towns here for snowfall; Dodge City gets the most at 19 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leavenworth, KS | 6 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Kansas City, KS | 12 | 11 in | A shovel is enough |
| Shawnee, KS | 16 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Gladstone, MO | 18 | 11 in | A shovel is enough |
| Merriam, KS | 19 | 11 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mission, KS | 20 | 11 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 Leavenworth, 5.8 miles from Lansing. 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.