Do you need a snowblower in Galesburg, IL?
What clears snow in Galesburg
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Galesburg, about 3.4 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 Galesburg winter
- Snow a year
- 26 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 42
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. 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 3.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Galesburg
- Nov1.7
- Dec5.9
- Jan9.0
- Feb6.6
- Mar2.3
- Apr0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Galesburg and its neighbours
Galesburg is number 159 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kewanee, IL | 31 | 31 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Canton, IL | 32 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| Macomb, IL | 37 | 11 in | A shovel is enough |
| Moline, IL | 37 | 36 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Rock Island, IL | 37 | 36 in | Cordless single-stage |
| East Moline, IL | 39 | 36 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 Galesburg, 0.5 miles from Galesburg. 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.