Do you need a snowblower in Lima, OH?
What clears snow in Lima
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Lima, 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 Lima is light enough for one.
A normal Lima winter
- Snow a year
- 19 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 22
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lima
- Nov0.4
- Dec4.1
- Jan6.0
- Feb5.1
- Mar2.8
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Lima
Lima is number 131 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Wert, OH | 26 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Celina, OH | 27 | 29 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Sidney, OH | 31 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bellefontaine, OH | 32 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Findlay, OH | 33 | 24 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Defiance, OH | 40 | 24 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 Lima Wwtp, 1.4 miles from Lima. 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.