Do you need a snowblower in Lindon, UT?
Your answer for Lindon
Gas single-stage
Lindon gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 5.4 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.
Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.
What a Lindon winter brings
- Snow a year
- 41 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 2.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 33
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. That is about 1.2 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 5.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lindon
- Oct0.8
- Nov3.5
- Dec10.3
- Jan11.5
- Feb8.3
- Mar3.9
- Apr2.8
- May0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Lindon
Lindon is number 45 of 67 Utah towns here for snowfall; Bountiful gets the most at 119 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Grove, UT | 2 | 41 in | Gas single-stage |
| Orem, UT | 3 | 45 in | Gas single-stage |
| Vineyard, UT | 3 | 41 in | Gas single-stage |
| American Fork, UT | 5 | 41 in | Gas single-stage |
| Highland, UT | 7 | 74 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Provo, UT | 8 | 45 in | Gas 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 Pleasant Grove, 2.0 miles from Lindon. 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.