Do you need a snowblower in Havre de Grace, MD?
The machine for a Havre de Grace driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Havre de Grace, 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 Havre de Grace is light enough for one.
What a Havre de Grace winter brings
- Snow a year
- 18 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 14
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Havre de Grace
- Nov0.3
- Dec3.0
- Jan5.0
- Feb7.1
- Mar2.6
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Havre de Grace
Havre de Grace is number 10 of 23 Maryland towns here for snowfall; Hagerstown gets the most at 33 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen, MD | 4 | 18 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bel Air, MD | 12 | 29 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Elkton, MD | 16 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Newark, DE | 21 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Middletown, DE | 22 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Baltimore, MD | 32 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Octoraro Lake, 17.6 miles from Havre de Grace. 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.