Do you need a snowblower in Mooresville, NC?
Your answer for Mooresville
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Mooresville, 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 Mooresville is light enough for one.
A normal Mooresville winter
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- 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 Mooresville 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 Mooresville
- Dec0.9
- Jan1.6
- Feb0.7
- Mar0.5
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Towns near Mooresville
Mooresville is number 30 of 91 North Carolina towns here for snowfall; Boone gets the most at 26 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson, NC | 7 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Cornelius, NC | 8 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Kannapolis, NC | 12 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Huntersville, NC | 12 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Statesville, NC | 14 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Concord, NC | 17 | 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 Salisbury 9 WNW, 13.9 miles from Mooresville. 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.