Do you need a snowblower in Nashville-Davidson, TN?
Your answer for Nashville-Davidson
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Nashville-Davidson, 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 Nashville-Davidson is light enough for one.
A normal Nashville-Davidson winter
- Snow a year
- 5 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
- 3
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 Nashville-Davidson waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Nashville-Davidson
- Nov0.1
- Dec0.4
- Jan2.0
- Feb1.5
- Mar0.7
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Nashville-Davidson
Nashville-Davidson is number 13 of 65 Tennessee towns here for snowfall; Crossville gets the most at 14 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodlettsville, TN | 12 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Brentwood, TN | 12 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Hendersonville, TN | 14 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Mount Juliet, TN | 15 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Nolensville, TN | 16 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| La Vergne, TN | 16 | 1 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 Nashville International Airport, 6.5 miles from Nashville-Davidson. 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.