Do you need a snowblower in Columbus, NE?
Your answer for Columbus
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Columbus, about 3.3 tons a winter on this driveway, but it comes in shallow storms a small cordless machine can take in.
Before you buy, check the battery is rated to clear the whole driveway in one charge in the cold, or get a second battery. Batteries lose range below freezing.
What a Columbus winter brings
- Snow a year
- 26 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 39
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Columbus
- Oct0.7
- Nov1.8
- Dec5.6
- Jan6.6
- Feb6.0
- Mar3.8
- Apr1.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Columbus and its neighbours
Columbus is number 12 of 16 Nebraska towns here for snowfall; Scottsbluff gets the most at 40 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norfolk, NE | 41 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Fremont, NE | 45 | 32 in | Gas single-stage |
| Lincoln, NE | 56 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Grand Island, NE | 63 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Omaha, NE | 69 | 27 in | Cordless single-stage |
| La Vista, NE | 69 | 36 in | Gas 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 Columbus 3 NE, 2.4 miles from Columbus. 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.