Do you need a snowblower in Levelland, TX?
Your answer for Levelland
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.8 tons of snow on this driveway in Levelland, 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 Levelland is light enough for one.
What a Levelland winter brings
- Snow a year
- 6 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
- 5
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 5.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Levelland waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Levelland
- Oct0.1
- Nov0.9
- Dec1.9
- Jan1.3
- Feb1.5
- Mar0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from December to February, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Levelland
Levelland is number 9 of 252 Texas towns here for snowfall; Amarillo gets the most at 17 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubbock, TX | 27 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Plainview, TX | 56 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Portales, NM | 70 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lovington, NM | 72 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Hobbs, NM | 75 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Clovis, NM | 76 | 13 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 Levelland, 2.3 miles from Levelland. 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.