Do you need a snowblower in Macomb, IL?
Your answer for Macomb
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Macomb, 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 Macomb is light enough for one.
How much snow Macomb gets
- Snow a year
- 11 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 13
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
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 Macomb
- Nov0.8
- Dec2.0
- Jan3.2
- Feb3.5
- Mar0.6
- Apr0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from December to February, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Macomb
Macomb is number 216 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington, IA | 33 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
| Canton, IL | 35 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| Galesburg, IL | 37 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Quincy, IL | 52 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Pekin, IL | 56 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Jacksonville, IL | 56 | 16 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 Macomb, 0.9 miles from Macomb. 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.