Do you need a snowblower in Mount Washington, KY?
What clears snow in Mount Washington
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Mount Washington, 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 Washington is light enough for one.
A normal Mount Washington winter
- 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
- 11
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
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 Washington
- Dec0.8
- Jan1.9
- Feb0.6
- Mar0.2
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Towns near Mount Washington
Mount Washington is number 37 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shepherdsville, KY | 9 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Louisville/Jefferson County, KY | 10 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Jeffersontown, KY | 11 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| St. Matthews, KY | 15 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lyndon, KY | 15 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bardstown, KY | 16 | 12 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 Shepherdsville 5NE, 3.8 miles from Mount Washington. 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.