Do you need a snowblower in Lexington, NC?
What clears snow in Lexington
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Lexington, 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 Lexington is light enough for one.
What a Lexington winter brings
- Snow a year
- 3 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 1
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 Lexington waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lexington
- Dec0.6
- Jan2.0
- Feb0.4
- Mar0.3
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Towns near Lexington
Lexington is number 41 of 91 North Carolina towns here for snowfall; Boone gets the most at 26 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomasville, NC | 12 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Salisbury, NC | 15 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Clemmons, NC | 17 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Archdale, NC | 19 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| High Point, NC | 21 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Winston-Salem, NC | 21 | 6 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 Lexington, 3.4 miles from Lexington. 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.