Do you need a snowblower in Hastings, MN?
The machine for a Hastings driveway
Gas single-stage
Hastings gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 5.3 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 Hastings winter brings
- Snow a year
- 41 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.5 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 82
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 5.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Hastings
- Oct0.3
- Nov7.0
- Dec7.0
- Jan10.5
- Feb6.4
- Mar8.0
- Apr1.8
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Hastings and its neighbours
Hastings is number 71 of 103 Minnesota towns here for snowfall; Hermantown gets the most at 90 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottage Grove, MN | 6 | 41 in | Gas single-stage |
| Rosemount, MN | 11 | 41 in | Gas single-stage |
| Inver Grove Heights, MN | 12 | 51 in | Gas single-stage |
| Woodbury, MN | 13 | 40 in | Cordless single-stage |
| South St. Paul, MN | 14 | 51 in | Gas single-stage |
| River Falls, WI | 14 | 50 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 Farmington 3 NW, 16.1 miles from Hastings. 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.