Do you need a snowblower in Highland Park, NJ?
The machine for a Highland Park driveway
Gas single-stage
Highland Park gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 3.8 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 Highland Park winter brings
- Snow a year
- 29 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.5 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 27
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 3.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Highland Park
- Oct0.2
- Nov0.5
- Dec4.9
- Jan8.3
- Feb9.3
- Mar5.2
- Apr0.6
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in November.
Highland Park and its neighbours
Highland Park is number 40 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Brunswick, NJ | 1 | 29 in | Gas single-stage |
| Metuchen, NJ | 4 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| South River, NJ | 5 | 29 in | Gas single-stage |
| South Plainfield, NJ | 5 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sayreville, NJ | 6 | 29 in | Gas single-stage |
| Middlesex, NJ | 6 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
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 NEW Brunswick 3 SE, 2.0 miles from Highland Park. 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.