Do you need a snowblower in Mexico, MO?
The machine for a Mexico driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Mexico, 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 Mexico is light enough for one.
How much snow Mexico gets
- Snow a year
- 19 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.8 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 23
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Mexico
- Nov0.7
- Dec4.9
- Jan7.2
- Feb4.3
- Mar1.5
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Mexico
Mexico is number 7 of 80 Missouri towns here for snowfall; St. Joseph gets the most at 21 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulton, MO | 22 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Columbia, MO | 29 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Moberly, MO | 35 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Jefferson City, MO | 44 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hannibal, MO | 46 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Troy, MO | 50 | 16 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 Fulton, 22.0 miles from Mexico. 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.