Do you need a snowblower in Barnstable Town, MA?
The machine for a Barnstable Town driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.8 tons of snow on this driveway in Barnstable Town, 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 Barnstable Town is light enough for one.
A normal Barnstable Town winter
- Snow a year
- 22 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
- 16
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Barnstable Town
- Dec2.1
- Jan9.5
- Feb6.3
- Mar3.6
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Barnstable Town
Barnstable Town is number 58 of 58 Massachusetts towns here for snowfall; North Adams gets the most at 85 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Bedford, MA | 30 | 33 in | Gas single-stage |
| Fall River, MA | 38 | 38 in | Gas single-stage |
| Bridgewater Town, MA | 39 | 34 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Taunton, MA | 42 | 26 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Brockton, MA | 45 | 34 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Weymouth Town, MA | 48 | 51 in | Two-stage snowblower |
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 Hyannis, 2.7 miles from Barnstable Town. 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.