Do you need a snowblower in Greensburg, PA?
The machine for a Greensburg driveway
Gas single-stage
Greensburg gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 3.9 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.
Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.
What a Greensburg winter brings
- Snow a year
- 30 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 44
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 3.9 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Greensburg
- Oct0.1
- Nov0.9
- Dec6.4
- Jan9.0
- Feb7.5
- Mar5.6
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.
Towns near Greensburg
Greensburg is number 33 of 68 Pennsylvania towns here for snowfall; Erie gets the most at 104 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murrysville, PA | 11 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Monroeville, PA | 14 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| McKeesport, PA | 16 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Plum, PA | 17 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| West Mifflin, PA | 19 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Wilkinsburg, PA | 20 | 25 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 Mt Pleasant, 7.0 miles from Greensburg. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.