Do you need a snowblower in Beachwood, NJ?
What clears snow in Beachwood
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.3 tons of snow on this driveway in Beachwood, 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 Beachwood is light enough for one.
What a Beachwood winter brings
- Snow a year
- 10 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.7 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 24
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Beachwood
- Dec0.9
- Jan3.9
- Feb4.6
- Mar0.8
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Beachwood
Beachwood is number 116 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Point Pleasant, NJ | 12 | 24 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Asbury Park, NJ | 23 | 25 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Freehold, NJ | 23 | 24 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Tinton Falls, NJ | 24 | 29 in | Gas single-stage |
| Eatontown, NJ | 26 | 25 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Long Branch, NJ | 28 | 25 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 Brant Beach-Beach Haven, 25.2 miles from Beachwood. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.
- The weather station is 25 miles away, far enough that Beachwood can differ.