Do you need a snowblower in Elkton, MD?
The machine for a Elkton driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Elkton, 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 Elkton is light enough for one.
How much snow Elkton gets
- Snow a year
- 20 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.9 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 17
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 2.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Elkton
- Nov0.2
- Dec2.9
- Jan6.1
- Feb7.8
- Mar3.1
- Apr0.1
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 Elkton
Elkton is number 7 of 23 Maryland towns here for snowfall; Hagerstown gets the most at 33 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark, DE | 6 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Middletown, DE | 13 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Havre de Grace, MD | 16 | 18 in | A shovel is enough |
| Wilmington, DE | 18 | 12 in | A shovel is enough |
| Aberdeen, MD | 20 | 18 in | A shovel is enough |
| Smyrna, DE | 24 | 13 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 Wilmington NEW Castle County Airport, 12.6 miles from Elkton. 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.