Do you need a snowblower in Kent, OH?
The machine for a Kent driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Kent, about 5.9 tons a winter on this driveway, but it comes in shallow storms a small cordless machine can take in.
Before you buy, check the battery is rated to clear the whole driveway in one charge in the cold, or get a second battery. Batteries lose range below freezing.
A normal Kent winter
- Snow a year
- 45 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 52
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. That is about 1.3 times 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 5.9 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Kent
- Nov2.1
- Dec9.3
- Jan14.4
- Feb11.0
- Mar7.3
- Apr0.9
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Kent and its neighbours
Kent is number 57 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tallmadge, OH | 4 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Stow, OH | 4 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Ravenna, OH | 6 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Streetsboro, OH | 6 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Hudson, OH | 8 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Akron, OH | 10 | 47 in | Cordless 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 Ravenna 2 S, 4.2 miles from Kent. 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.