Do you need a snowblower in Lowell, AR?
The machine for a Lowell driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.2 tons of snow on this driveway in Lowell, 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 Lowell is light enough for one.
How much snow Lowell gets
- Snow a year
- 10 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 6
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Lowell waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.2 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lowell
- Nov0.2
- Dec1.2
- Jan3.2
- Feb2.3
- Mar2.6
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Lowell and its neighbours
Lowell is number 8 of 39 Arkansas towns here for snowfall; Siloam Springs gets the most at 13 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers, AR | 4 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Springdale, AR | 4 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bentonville, AR | 8 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Centerton, AR | 11 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Fayetteville, AR | 13 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Pea Ridge, AR | 13 | 10 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 Bentonville 4 S, 5.7 miles from Lowell. 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.