Do you need a snowblower in Franklin Park, PA?
Your answer for Franklin Park
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Franklin Park, 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 Franklin Park is light enough for one.
What a Franklin Park winter brings
- Snow a year
- 20 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.7 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- 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 Franklin Park
- Oct0.1
- Nov0.3
- Dec2.5
- Jan9.1
- Feb5.2
- Mar2.6
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Franklin Park
Franklin Park is number 64 of 68 Pennsylvania towns here for snowfall; Erie gets the most at 104 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh, PA | 12 | 44 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Wilkinsburg, PA | 16 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Baldwin, PA | 17 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Whitehall, PA | 17 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Munhall, PA | 17 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| New Kensington, PA | 18 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
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 Glenwillard Dashields L&d, 6.4 miles from Franklin Park. 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.