Do you need a snowblower in Lockport, IL?
The machine for a Lockport driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Lockport, about 4.3 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 Lockport winter brings
- Snow a year
- 33 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
- 39
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 4.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lockport
- Oct0.1
- Nov1.2
- Dec7.5
- Jan10.6
- Feb8.7
- Mar4.2
- Apr0.9
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Lockport and its neighbours
Lockport is number 116 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homer Glen, IL | 4 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Crest Hill, IL | 4 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Romeoville, IL | 4 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Lemont, IL | 6 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| New Lenox, IL | 6 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bolingbrook, IL | 8 | 29 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 Romeoville Wfo, 3.0 miles from Lockport. 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.