Do you need a snowblower in Newport, KY?
The machine for a Newport driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.1 tons of snow on this driveway in Newport, 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 Newport is light enough for one.
A normal Newport winter
- Snow a year
- 16 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 27
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.5 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Newport
- Oct0.3
- Nov0.2
- Dec2.6
- Jan6.0
- Feb4.3
- Mar2.4
- Apr0.2
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Newport and its neighbours
Newport is number 7 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Thomas, KY | 2 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Cincinnati, OH | 4 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Covington, KY | 4 | 23 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Norwood, OH | 5 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Erlanger, KY | 7 | 23 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Independence, KY | 9 | 23 in | Cordless single-stage |
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 Cheviot, 8.7 miles from Newport. 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.