Do you need a snowblower in Lynden, WA?
What clears snow in Lynden
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Lynden, 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 Lynden is light enough for one.
What a Lynden winter brings
- Snow a year
- 11 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 5
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Lynden waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lynden
- Nov1.3
- Dec2.6
- Jan3.1
- Feb2.7
- Mar1.0
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Lynden and its neighbours
Lynden is number 13 of 91 Washington towns here for snowfall; Spokane gets the most at 45 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferndale, WA | 9 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bellingham, WA | 14 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sedro-Woolley, WA | 32 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Anacortes, WA | 33 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Burlington, WA | 34 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mount Vernon, WA | 37 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Clearbrook, 5.8 miles from Lynden. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.