Do you need a snowblower in East Wenatchee, WA?
The machine for a East Wenatchee driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.1 tons of snow on this driveway in East Wenatchee, 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 East Wenatchee is light enough for one.
A normal East Wenatchee winter
- Snow a year
- 17 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 30
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in East Wenatchee
- Nov1.5
- Dec6.0
- Jan5.6
- Feb3.0
- Mar0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from November to February, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near East Wenatchee
East Wenatchee is number 11 of 91 Washington towns here for snowfall; Spokane gets the most at 45 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wenatchee, WA | 2 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Ellensburg, WA | 31 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Moses Lake, WA | 51 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| Yakima, WA | 58 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Snoqualmie, WA | 75 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sunnyside, WA | 77 | 10 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 Wenatchee, 1.5 miles from East Wenatchee. 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.