Do you need a snowblower in Paducah, KY?
The machine for a Paducah driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Paducah, 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 Paducah is light enough for one.
A normal Paducah winter
- Snow a year
- 3 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 7
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 0.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Paducah
- Dec0.5
- Jan0.7
- Feb1.8
- Mar0.1
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Towns near Paducah
Paducah is number 39 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murray, KY | 36 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Marion, IL | 49 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Union City, TN | 50 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Martin, TN | 52 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Cape Girardeau, MO | 53 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sikeston, MO | 54 | 3 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 Brookport Dam 52, 3.9 miles from Paducah. 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.