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Do you need a snowblower in Hanover Park, IL?

What clears snow in Hanover Park

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Hanover Park, about 4.4 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.

How much snow Hanover Park gets

Snow a year
34 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.2 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 5 winters
Days with snow on the ground
60

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 4.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Hanover Park

  1. Oct0.1
  2. Nov1.8
  3. Dec8.7
  4. Jan11.9
  5. Feb6.0
  6. Mar4.8
  7. Apr0.7

Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.

Hanover Park and its neighbours

Hanover Park is number 100 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Bartlett, IL234 inCordless single-stage
Roselle, IL334 inCordless single-stage
Streamwood, IL334 inCordless single-stage
Bloomingdale, IL334 inCordless single-stage
Carol Stream, IL434 inCordless single-stage
Schaumburg, IL434 inCordless 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 Streamwood, 3.5 miles from Hanover Park. 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.