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Do you need a snowblower in Lexington, NE?

Your answer for Lexington

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.6 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
20 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.2 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
48

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 2.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Lexington

  1. Oct0.6
  2. Nov1.9
  3. Dec3.3
  4. Jan5.9
  5. Feb4.9
  6. Mar2.3
  7. Apr1.0
  8. May0.1

Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Lexington and its neighbours

Lexington is number 15 of 16 Nebraska towns here for snowfall; Scottsbluff gets the most at 40 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Kearney, NE3522 inA shovel is enough
North Platte, NE5830 inCordless single-stage
Hastings, NE7229 inCordless single-stage
Grand Island, NE7328 inCordless single-stage
Columbus, NE13226 inCordless single-stage
Hays, KS13313 inA 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 Canaday Steam Plt, 6.2 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.