Do you need a snowblower in Red Bank, TN?
The machine for a Red Bank driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Red Bank, 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 Red Bank is light enough for one.
A normal Red Bank winter
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 2
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Red Bank waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Red Bank
- Dec0.3
- Jan1.0
- Feb1.2
- Mar1.1
Snow worth clearing runs from January to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Red Bank and its neighbours
Red Bank is number 31 of 65 Tennessee towns here for snowfall; Crossville gets the most at 14 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chattanooga, TN | 4 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| East Ridge, TN | 9 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Soddy-Daisy, TN | 13 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Fort Oglethorpe, GA | 13 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Collegedale, TN | 15 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Cleveland, TN | 24 | 1 in | No snowblower |
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 Chattanooga Lovell Airport, 7.7 miles from Red Bank. 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.
- The two nearest weather stations sit at very different heights, and the second one averages 4 inches a year. Hills around Red Bank can get a lot more or less than this.