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Do you need a snowblower in Lindenhurst, NY?

What clears snow in Lindenhurst

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Lindenhurst, 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 Lindenhurst is light enough for one.

How much snow Lindenhurst gets

Snow a year
19 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.3 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
23

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 Lindenhurst

  1. Nov0.2
  2. Dec5.7
  3. Jan2.9
  4. Feb6.2
  5. Mar3.1
  6. Apr0.4

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Lindenhurst and its neighbours

Lindenhurst is number 83 of 90 New York towns here for snowfall; Utica gets the most at 164 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Babylon, NY232 inTwo-stage snowblower
Massapequa Park, NY419 inA shovel is enough
Freeport, NY1126 inGas single-stage
Westbury, NY1219 inA shovel is enough
Hempstead, NY1319 inA shovel is enough
Rockville Centre, NY1426 inGas 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 Mineola, 13.3 miles from Lindenhurst. 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.