Do you need a snowblower in Elizabethtown, PA?
The machine for a Elizabethtown driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Elizabethtown, about 3.1 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.
A normal Elizabethtown winter
- Snow a year
- 24 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 19
Light, below most snowy cities. 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 3.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Elizabethtown
- Nov0.1
- Dec4.8
- Jan7.0
- Feb8.8
- Mar3.0
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in November.
Elizabethtown and its neighbours
Elizabethtown is number 56 of 68 Pennsylvania towns here for snowfall; Erie gets the most at 104 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia, PA | 10 | 23 in | Gas single-stage |
| York, PA | 15 | 25 in | Gas single-stage |
| Lebanon, PA | 16 | 24 in | Gas single-stage |
| Harrisburg, PA | 17 | 24 in | Gas single-stage |
| Lancaster, PA | 18 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mechanicsburg, PA | 22 | 24 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 York Haven, 6.6 miles from Elizabethtown. 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.