Do you need a snowblower in New Albany, IN?
The machine for a New Albany driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.6 tons of snow on this driveway in New Albany, 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 New Albany is light enough for one.
How much snow New Albany gets
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.3 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 0.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in New Albany
- Dec1.4
- Jan2.3
- Feb0.3
- Mar0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to January, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
New Albany and its neighbours
New Albany is number 86 of 88 Indiana towns here for snowfall; Michigan City gets the most at 65 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarksville, IN | 3 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sellersburg, IN | 7 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Jeffersonville, IN | 7 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Shively, KY | 8 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| St. Matthews, KY | 11 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lyndon, KY | 13 | 13 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 Louisville Mcalpine, 3.0 miles from New Albany. 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.