Do you need a snowblower in Kewanee, IL?
Your answer for Kewanee
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Kewanee, about 4.0 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 Kewanee winter
- Snow a year
- 31 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 42
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About 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 4.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Kewanee
- Oct0.3
- Nov1.4
- Dec7.5
- Jan8.7
- Feb8.5
- Mar3.2
- Apr1.2
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Kewanee and its neighbours
Kewanee is number 127 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galesburg, IL | 31 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| East Moline, IL | 31 | 36 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Moline, IL | 34 | 36 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Bettendorf, IA | 36 | 36 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Peoria, IL | 37 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Rock Island, IL | 38 | 36 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 Kewanee 1 E, 1.4 miles from Kewanee. 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.