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Do you need a snowblower in Sweetwater, TX?

Your answer for Sweetwater

No snowblower

Sweetwater averages 2 inches of snow a year. It is gone before it needs moving.

If you are moving to Sweetwater from somewhere snowy, you can sell the snowblower before you move.

When the snow comes in Sweetwater

  1. Nov0.8
  2. Dec0.7
  3. Jan0.3
  4. Feb0.5

Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.

Sweetwater and its neighbours

Almost no snow falls in Sweetwater. In Texas, Amarillo gets the most here at 17 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Snyder, TX342 inNo snowblower
Abilene, TX394 inA shovel is enough
Big Spring, TX652 inNo snowblower
San Angelo, TX711 inNo snowblower
Brownwood, TX991 inNo snowblower
Midland, TX1042 inNo snowblower

Where these numbers come from

Read next: Why storm depth matters more than snowfall and What a winter of snow weighs.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Roscoe, 7.0 miles from Sweetwater. 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.