Do you need a snowblower in Aberdeen, MD?
Your answer for Aberdeen
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Aberdeen, 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 Aberdeen is light enough for one.
What a Aberdeen winter brings
- Snow a year
- 18 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 14
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Aberdeen
- Nov0.3
- Dec3.0
- Jan5.0
- Feb7.1
- Mar2.6
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Aberdeen
Aberdeen is number 9 of 23 Maryland towns here for snowfall; Hagerstown gets the most at 33 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Havre de Grace, MD | 4 | 18 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bel Air, MD | 9 | 29 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Elkton, MD | 20 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Newark, DE | 25 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Middletown, DE | 25 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Baltimore, MD | 28 | 19 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 Octoraro Lake, 20.5 miles from Aberdeen. 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.