Do you need a snowblower in Harper Woods, MI?
The machine for a Harper Woods driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Harper Woods, about 3.6 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 Harper Woods winter
- Snow a year
- 28 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 50
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 3.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Harper Woods
- Nov0.4
- Dec6.9
- Jan9.4
- Feb7.4
- Mar3.5
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.
Towns near Harper Woods
Harper Woods is number 88 of 90 Michigan towns here for snowfall; Sault Ste. Marie gets the most at 120 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grosse Pointe Woods, MI | 2 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Eastpointe, MI | 2 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| St. Clair Shores, MI | 4 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Grosse Pointe Park, MI | 5 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Roseville, MI | 5 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Warren, MI | 6 | 28 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 Grosse Pointe Farms, 3.0 miles from Harper Woods. 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.