Do you need a snowblower in Shively, KY?
Your answer for Shively
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.7 tons of snow on this driveway in Shively, 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 Shively is light enough for one.
What a Shively winter brings
- Snow a year
- 13 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 11
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 1.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Shively
- Oct0.1
- Nov0.3
- Dec2.2
- Jan4.5
- Feb4.1
- Mar2.1
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Shively
Shively is number 17 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Albany, IN | 8 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Clarksville, IN | 9 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Louisville/Jefferson County, KY | 9 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| St. Matthews, KY | 10 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Jeffersonville, IN | 11 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lyndon, KY | 13 | 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 Louisville International Airport, 4.2 miles from Shively. 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.