Do you need a snowblower in Collingswood, NJ?
What clears snow in Collingswood
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.8 tons of snow on this driveway in Collingswood, 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 Collingswood is light enough for one.
How much snow Collingswood gets
- Snow a year
- 22 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 21
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 Collingswood
- Nov0.2
- Dec4.7
- Jan5.8
- Feb8.2
- Mar2.7
- 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.
Towns near Collingswood
Collingswood is number 94 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camden, NJ | 2 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Gloucester City, NJ | 3 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
| Haddonfield, NJ | 3 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bellmawr, NJ | 3 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
| Woodbury, NJ | 7 | 23 in | Gas single-stage |
| Philadelphia, PA | 7 | 16 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 Somerdale 4 SW, 5.7 miles from Collingswood. 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.