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What clears snow in Noblesville

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Noblesville, 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 Noblesville is light enough for one.

A normal Noblesville winter

Snow a year
20 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.8 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 10 winters
Days with snow on the ground
27

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 2.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Noblesville

  1. Oct0.1
  2. Nov0.5
  3. Dec4.8
  4. Jan7.4
  5. Feb5.9
  6. Mar1.6

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

Noblesville and its neighbours

Noblesville is number 57 of 88 Indiana towns here for snowfall; Michigan City gets the most at 65 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Fishers, IN627 inCordless single-stage
Westfield, IN820 inA shovel is enough
Carmel, IN920 inA shovel is enough
McCordsville, IN1127 inCordless single-stage
Lawrence, IN1227 inCordless single-stage
Zionsville, IN1722 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 Noblesville 3 W, 3.5 miles from Noblesville. 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.