Do you need a snowblower in Arlington, WA?
Your answer for Arlington
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Arlington, 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 Arlington is light enough for one.
How much snow Arlington gets
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 3
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 Arlington waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Arlington
- Nov0.2
- Dec2.2
- Jan0.8
- Feb0.7
- Mar0.4
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Arlington and its neighbours
Arlington is number 42 of 91 Washington towns here for snowfall; Spokane gets the most at 45 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marysville, WA | 6 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lake Stevens, WA | 12 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Everett, WA | 14 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Snohomish, WA | 17 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mount Vernon, WA | 19 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mukilteo, WA | 19 | 3 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 Arlington, 2.2 miles from Arlington. 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.