Do you need a snowblower in Lake in the Hills, IL?
The machine for a Lake in the Hills driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Lake in the Hills, about 4.6 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.
What a Lake in the Hills winter brings
- Snow a year
- 35 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 54
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 4.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lake in the Hills
- Oct0.2
- Nov1.6
- Dec8.7
- Jan10.0
- Feb9.0
- Mar4.4
- Apr1.2
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Lake in the Hills
Lake in the Hills is number 89 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin, IL | 1 | 32 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Crystal Lake, IL | 4 | 35 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Cary, IL | 4 | 35 in | Gas single-stage |
| Carpentersville, IL | 4 | 32 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Huntley, IL | 6 | 35 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Pingree Grove, IL | 9 | 32 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 Crystal Lake 4NW, 7.0 miles from Lake in the 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.