Do you need a snowblower in Gloucester City, NJ?
Your answer for Gloucester City
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.8 tons of snow on this driveway in Gloucester City, 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 Gloucester City is light enough for one.
A normal Gloucester City winter
- Snow a year
- 22 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 21
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 2.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Gloucester City
- Nov0.2
- Dec4.7
- Jan5.8
- Feb8.2
- Mar2.7
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Gloucester City and its neighbours
Gloucester City is number 97 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellmawr, NJ | 2 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
| Collingswood, NJ | 3 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
| Camden, NJ | 3 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Woodbury, NJ | 4 | 23 in | Gas single-stage |
| Haddonfield, NJ | 4 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
| Yeadon, PA | 8 | 23 in | Gas 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 Somerdale 4 SW, 5.4 miles from Gloucester City. 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.