Do you need a snowblower in Waynesville, NC?
What clears snow in Waynesville
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Waynesville, 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 Waynesville is light enough for one.
What a Waynesville winter brings
- Snow a year
- 11 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 9
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Waynesville
- Nov0.5
- Dec2.5
- Jan2.6
- Feb1.6
- Mar3.0
- Apr0.4
- May0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in March. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Waynesville and its neighbours
Waynesville is number 3 of 91 North Carolina towns here for snowfall; Boone gets the most at 26 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asheville, NC | 26 | 12 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hendersonville, NC | 33 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sevierville, TN | 43 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Greeneville, TN | 48 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Easley, SC | 52 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Morristown, TN | 52 | 9 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 Waynesville 1 E, 1.7 miles from Waynesville. 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.