Do you need a snowblower in Hawthorne, NJ?
The machine for a Hawthorne driveway
Gas single-stage
Hawthorne gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 3.7 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 Hawthorne winter brings
- Snow a year
- 28 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 2.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 24
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 3.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Hawthorne
- Oct0.2
- Nov0.3
- Dec5.9
- Jan8.0
- Feb8.4
- Mar4.7
- Apr0.7
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in November.
Towns near Hawthorne
Hawthorne is number 54 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Rock, NJ | 2 | 28 in | Gas single-stage |
| Fair Lawn, NJ | 3 | 28 in | Gas single-stage |
| Ridgewood, NJ | 3 | 33 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Paterson, NJ | 3 | 28 in | Gas single-stage |
| Elmwood Park, NJ | 4 | 28 in | Gas single-stage |
| Franklin Lakes, NJ | 4 | 28 in | Two-stage snowblower |
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 Harrison, 14.4 miles from Hawthorne. 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.