Do you need a snowblower in Mount Holly, NC?
The machine for a Mount Holly driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Mount Holly, 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 Mount Holly is light enough for one.
What a Mount Holly winter brings
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.0 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 Mount Holly 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 Mount Holly
- Nov0.1
- Dec0.4
- Jan1.6
- Feb1.1
- Mar0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Mount Holly and its neighbours
Mount Holly is number 33 of 91 North Carolina towns here for snowfall; Boone gets the most at 26 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont, NC | 7 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Huntersville, NC | 10 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Gastonia, NC | 11 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Charlotte, NC | 12 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Cornelius, NC | 13 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Davidson, NC | 16 | 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 Charlotte Douglas Airport, 6.9 miles from Mount Holly. 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.