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What clears snow in Plainview
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.1 tons of snow on this driveway in Plainview, 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 Plainview is light enough for one.
How much snow Plainview gets
- Snow a year
- 8 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
- 5
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 5.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Plainview waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Plainview
- Oct0.1
- Nov1.2
- Dec2.4
- Jan2.1
- Feb1.5
- Mar0.8
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to February, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Plainview
Plainview is number 6 of 252 Texas towns here for snowfall; Amarillo gets the most at 17 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubbock, TX | 44 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Levelland, TX | 56 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Canyon, TX | 56 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hereford, TX | 58 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| Amarillo, TX | 70 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Clovis, NM | 86 | 13 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 Plainview, 1.2 miles from Plainview. 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.