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Do you need a snowblower in Bayonne, NJ?

The machine for a Bayonne driveway

Gas single-stage

Bayonne gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 4.1 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.

Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.

What a Bayonne winter brings

Snow a year
32 in
Storms of 5 in or more
2.0 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
22

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 Bayonne

  1. Oct0.2
  2. Nov0.6
  3. Dec5.4
  4. Jan9.1
  5. Feb10.1
  6. Mar5.6
  7. Apr0.5

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in November.

Bayonne and its neighbours

Bayonne is number 11 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Jersey City, NJ428 inGas single-stage
Elizabeth, NJ432 inGas single-stage
Newark, NJ528 inGas single-stage
Harrison, NJ628 inGas single-stage
Kearny, NJ628 inGas single-stage
Linden, NJ732 inGas 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 Newark International Airport, 3.4 miles from Bayonne. 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.