Do you need a snowblower in Alliance, OH?
Your answer for Alliance
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Alliance, about 4.1 tons a winter on this driveway, but it comes in shallow storms a small cordless machine can take in.
Before you buy, check the battery is rated to clear the whole driveway in one charge in the cold, or get a second battery. Batteries lose range below freezing.
A normal Alliance winter
- Snow a year
- 32 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 47
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 4.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Alliance
- Oct0.1
- Nov1.7
- Dec6.7
- Jan10.5
- Feb7.6
- Mar4.9
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Alliance
Alliance is number 79 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem, OH | 14 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| North Canton, OH | 15 | 47 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Canton, OH | 15 | 32 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Ravenna, OH | 18 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Green, OH | 19 | 47 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Kent, OH | 21 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
Where these numbers come from
Read next: Snowblowers on a gravel driveway and Single-stage or two-stage.
NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Louisville, 8.7 miles from Alliance. 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.