Do you need a snowblower in Greeley, CO?
Your answer for Greeley
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Greeley, about 4.5 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 Greeley winter
- Snow a year
- 35 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 39
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 4.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Greeley
- Sep0.5
- Oct3.3
- Nov5.4
- Dec5.6
- Jan5.7
- Feb5.1
- Mar5.1
- Apr3.7
- May0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from October to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in September.
Towns near Greeley
Greeley is number 40 of 53 Colorado towns here for snowfall; Steamboat Springs gets the most at 185 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evans, CO | 5 | 35 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Severance, CO | 8 | 48 in | Gas single-stage |
| Windsor, CO | 9 | 48 in | Gas single-stage |
| Johnstown, CO | 10 | 47 in | Gas single-stage |
| Timnath, CO | 13 | 48 in | Gas single-stage |
| Berthoud, CO | 14 | 47 in | Gas 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 Greeley Unc, 3.9 miles from Greeley. 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.