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Do you need a snowblower in Brooklyn Park, MN?

What clears snow in Brooklyn Park

Gas single-stage

Brooklyn Park gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 7.1 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.

How much snow Brooklyn Park gets

Snow a year
54 in
Storms of 5 in or more
2.3 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
104

Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.5 times 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 7.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Brooklyn Park

  1. Oct0.8
  2. Nov6.9
  3. Dec12.3
  4. Jan10.1
  5. Feb10.1
  6. Mar9.0
  7. Apr5.1

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

Towns near Brooklyn Park

Brooklyn Park is number 12 of 103 Minnesota towns here for snowfall; Hermantown gets the most at 90 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Brooklyn Center, MN354 inGas single-stage
Champlin, MN544 inGas single-stage
Fridley, MN540 inCordless single-stage
Coon Rapids, MN544 inGas single-stage
Crystal, MN554 inGas single-stage
New Hope, MN654 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 NEW Hope, 7.1 miles from Brooklyn Park. 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.