Do you need a snowblower in Russellville, AR?
What clears snow in Russellville
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Russellville, 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 Russellville is light enough for one.
What a Russellville winter brings
- Snow a year
- 3 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.0 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 Russellville waiting a day is often a real option.
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 Russellville
- Dec0.4
- Jan0.8
- Feb1.2
- Mar0.7
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Russellville and its neighbours
Russellville is number 18 of 39 Arkansas towns here for snowfall; Siloam Springs gets the most at 13 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conway, AR | 40 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Maumelle, AR | 51 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Hot Springs, AR | 55 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Benton, AR | 58 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Little Rock, AR | 58 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bryant, AR | 59 | 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 Dardanelle, 3.4 miles from Russellville. 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.