Do you need a snowblower in Gahanna, OH?
Your answer for Gahanna
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Gahanna, about 3.7 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.
How much snow Gahanna gets
- Snow a year
- 28 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
- 27
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Gahanna
- Oct0.2
- Nov1.2
- Dec5.1
- Jan9.5
- Feb7.6
- Mar4.1
- Apr0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Gahanna and its neighbours
Gahanna is number 90 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehall, OH | 5 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Bexley, OH | 6 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Westerville, OH | 6 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| New Albany, OH | 7 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Columbus, OH | 7 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Reynoldsburg, OH | 7 | 28 in | Cordless 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 Columbus Port Columbus International Airport, 3.1 miles from Gahanna. 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.