Do you need a snowblower in Lincolnton, NC?
The machine for a Lincolnton driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.7 tons of snow on this driveway in Lincolnton, 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 Lincolnton is light enough for one.
What a Lincolnton winter brings
- Snow a year
- 6 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 4
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 Lincolnton waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lincolnton
- Nov0.1
- Dec1.1
- Jan2.6
- Feb1.0
- Mar0.8
Snow worth clearing runs from December to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Lincolnton and its neighbours
Lincolnton is number 13 of 91 North Carolina towns here for snowfall; Boone gets the most at 26 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton, NC | 13 | 0 in | No snowblower |
| Gastonia, NC | 16 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Mount Holly, NC | 17 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Kings Mountain, NC | 18 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Hickory, NC | 19 | 0 in | No snowblower |
| Cornelius, NC | 20 | 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 Lincolnton 4 W, 5.2 miles from Lincolnton. 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.