Do you need a snowblower in Woodward, OK?
Your answer for Woodward
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.9 tons of snow on this driveway in Woodward, 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 Woodward is light enough for one.
A normal Woodward winter
- Snow a year
- 15 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 8
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.5 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Woodward waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.9 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Woodward
- Oct0.2
- Nov0.8
- Dec3.4
- Jan3.8
- Feb2.8
- Mar3.7
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 Woodward
Woodward is the snowiest Oklahoma town here for snowfall.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elk City, OK | 72 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Weatherford, OK | 73 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Enid, OK | 85 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Liberal, KS | 95 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| Dodge City, KS | 98 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| El Reno, OK | 101 | 4 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 Woodward, 1.7 miles from Woodward. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.