Do you need a snowblower in Morristown, TN?
What clears snow in Morristown
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.1 tons of snow on this driveway in Morristown, 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 Morristown is light enough for one.
A normal Morristown winter
- Snow a year
- 9 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.5 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 5
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 Morristown waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Morristown
- Nov0.2
- Dec1.6
- Jan2.1
- Feb2.9
- Mar2.0
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Morristown
Morristown is number 3 of 65 Tennessee towns here for snowfall; Crossville gets the most at 14 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sevierville, TN | 27 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Greeneville, TN | 27 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Knoxville, TN | 40 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Alcoa, TN | 46 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Clinton, TN | 47 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Kingsport, TN | 47 | 5 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 Morristown Radio Wcrk, 1.8 miles from Morristown. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.