Do you need a snowblower in Atlantic City, NJ?
The machine for a Atlantic City driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.3 tons of snow on this driveway in Atlantic City, 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 Atlantic City is light enough for one.
How much snow Atlantic City gets
- Snow a year
- 17 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.7 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 10
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 2.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Atlantic City
- Nov0.1
- Dec3.2
- Jan5.7
- Feb5.9
- Mar2.2
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Atlantic City and its neighbours
Atlantic City is number 108 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasantville, NJ | 3 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Somers Point, NJ | 9 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Ocean City, NJ | 11 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hammonton, NJ | 26 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Vineland, NJ | 30 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Millville, NJ | 32 | 12 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 Atlantic City International Airport, 8.0 miles from Atlantic City. 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.