Do you need a snowblower in Jefferson Hills, PA?
What clears snow in Jefferson Hills
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.8 tons of snow on this driveway in Jefferson Hills, 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 Jefferson Hills is light enough for one.
What a Jefferson Hills winter brings
- Snow a year
- 21 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.7 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 24
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Jefferson Hills
- Nov0.5
- Dec3.3
- Jan5.7
- Feb7.2
- Mar4.6
- 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 Jefferson Hills
Jefferson Hills is number 63 of 68 Pennsylvania towns here for snowfall; Erie gets the most at 104 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Mifflin, PA | 5 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Whitehall, PA | 5 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Bethel Park, PA | 5 | 32 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Baldwin, PA | 6 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| McKeesport, PA | 6 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Munhall, PA | 7 | 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 Donora 1 SW, 10.0 miles from Jefferson Hills. 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.