Do you need a snowblower in Union City, TN?
What clears snow in Union City
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.8 tons of snow on this driveway in Union City, 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 Union City is light enough for one.
A normal Union City winter
- Snow a year
- 6 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 Union City waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Union City
- Oct0.1
- Nov0.2
- Dec0.7
- Jan2.1
- Feb1.7
- Mar1.0
Snow worth clearing runs from January to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Union City and its neighbours
Union City is number 10 of 65 Tennessee towns here for snowfall; Crossville gets the most at 14 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin, TN | 13 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Dyersburg, TN | 32 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Paris, TN | 42 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Murray, KY | 42 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sikeston, MO | 43 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Paducah, KY | 50 | 3 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 Union City, 2.6 miles from Union City. 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.