Do you need a snowblower in Harrison, OH?
The machine for a Harrison driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Harrison, 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 Harrison is light enough for one.
How much snow Harrison gets
- Snow a year
- 11 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 15
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Harrison
- Nov0.1
- Dec2.0
- Jan2.9
- Feb4.7
- Mar1.7
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Harrison and its neighbours
Harrison is number 167 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield, OH | 14 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Forest Park, OH | 14 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hamilton, OH | 15 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Springdale, OH | 17 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Cincinnati, OH | 17 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Oxford, OH | 17 | 25 in | Cordless 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 Cincinnati-Fernbank, 10.8 miles from Harrison. 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.