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Do you need a snowblower in Los Alamitos, CA?

The machine for a Los Alamitos driveway

No snowblower

Los Alamitos sees measurable snow only in a freak year.

If you are moving to Los Alamitos from somewhere snowy, you can sell the snowblower before you move.

Towns near Los Alamitos

Almost no snow falls in Los Alamitos. In California, Truckee gets the most here at 207 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Cypress, CA20 inNo snowblower
Hawaiian Gardens, CA20 inNo snowblower
Seal Beach, CA30 inNo snowblower
Stanton, CA40 inNo snowblower
La Palma, CA40 inNo snowblower
Cerritos, CA50 inNo snowblower

Where these numbers come from

Read next: Why storm depth matters more than snowfall and What a winter of snow weighs.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Santa Ana Fire Station, 11.8 miles from Los Alamitos. 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.