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Do you need a snowblower in Cottage Grove, MN?

The machine for a Cottage Grove driveway

Gas single-stage

Cottage Grove gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 5.3 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.

A normal Cottage Grove winter

Snow a year
41 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.5 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 10 winters
Days with snow on the ground
90

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 5.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Cottage Grove

  1. Oct0.3
  2. Nov7.0
  3. Dec7.0
  4. Jan10.5
  5. Feb6.4
  6. Mar8.0
  7. Apr1.8

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

Cottage Grove and its neighbours

Cottage Grove is number 68 of 103 Minnesota towns here for snowfall; Hermantown gets the most at 90 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Hastings, MN641 inGas single-stage
Woodbury, MN640 inCordless single-stage
Inver Grove Heights, MN751 inGas single-stage
South St. Paul, MN851 inGas single-stage
Rosemount, MN941 inGas single-stage
West St. Paul, MN1051 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 Farmington 3 NW, 16.0 miles from Cottage Grove. 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.