Do you need a snowblower in Midwest City, OK?
Your answer for Midwest City
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Midwest City, 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 Midwest City is light enough for one.
What a Midwest City winter brings
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 2
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 Midwest City waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Midwest City
- Nov0.2
- Dec1.2
- Jan1.7
- Feb0.4
- Mar0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from December to January, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Midwest City and its neighbours
Midwest City is number 31 of 45 Oklahoma towns here for snowfall; Woodward gets the most at 15 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Del City, OK | 4 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Choctaw, OK | 6 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 8 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Moore, OK | 11 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Warr Acres, OK | 14 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Edmond, OK | 15 | 3 in | No snowblower |
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 Stella, 13.3 miles from Midwest City. 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.