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What clears snow in Overland Park

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.8 tons of snow on this driveway in Overland Park, 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 Overland Park is light enough for one.

A normal Overland Park winter

Snow a year
14 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.6 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
19

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 1.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Overland Park

  1. Oct0.3
  2. Nov1.2
  3. Dec3.4
  4. Jan3.9
  5. Feb3.3
  6. Mar1.4
  7. Apr0.3

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

Overland Park and its neighbours

Overland Park is number 13 of 38 Kansas towns here for snowfall; Dodge City gets the most at 19 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Leawood, KS414 inA shovel is enough
Olathe, KS714 inA shovel is enough
Prairie Village, KS711 inA shovel is enough
Lenexa, KS814 inA shovel is enough
Merriam, KS911 inA shovel is enough
Grandview, MO99 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 Olathe 3E, 3.8 miles from Overland Park. 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.