Do you need a snowblower in Zebulon, NC?
Your answer for Zebulon
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Zebulon, 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 Zebulon is light enough for one.
How much snow Zebulon gets
- Snow a year
- 3 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 2
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Zebulon waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Zebulon
- Dec1.1
- Jan1.1
- Feb1.0
- Mar0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to February, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Zebulon and its neighbours
Zebulon is number 46 of 91 North Carolina towns here for snowfall; Boone gets the most at 26 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendell, NC | 3 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Rolesville, NC | 10 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Knightdale, NC | 11 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Clayton, NC | 14 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Wake Forest, NC | 14 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Raleigh, NC | 18 | 5 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 Zebulon 3 SW, 3.5 miles from Zebulon. 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.