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Do you need a snowblower in Nicholasville, KY?

Your answer for Nicholasville

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.3 tons of snow on this driveway in Nicholasville, 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 Nicholasville is light enough for one.

What a Nicholasville winter brings

Snow a year
10 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
12

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 1.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Nicholasville

  1. Nov0.2
  2. Dec1.6
  3. Jan3.8
  4. Feb3.3
  5. Mar1.3

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Nicholasville and its neighbours

Nicholasville is number 22 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Lexington-Fayette urban county, KY1215 inA shovel is enough
Versailles, KY1415 inA shovel is enough
Richmond, KY181 inNo snowblower
Danville, KY217 inA shovel is enough
Lawrenceburg, KY2110 inA shovel is enough
Winchester, KY229 inA 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 Keene 1 WSW, 6.1 miles from Nicholasville. 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.