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Do you need a snowblower in Manville, NJ?

Your answer for Manville

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.7 tons of snow on this driveway in Manville, 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 Manville is light enough for one.

What a Manville winter brings

Snow a year
21 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.2 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
27

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 2.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Manville

  1. Oct0.1
  2. Nov0.1
  3. Dec3.5
  4. Jan6.8
  5. Feb6.7
  6. Mar3.6
  7. Apr0.2

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Manville and its neighbours

Manville is number 106 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Somerville, NJ221 inA shovel is enough
Bound Brook, NJ321 inA shovel is enough
Middlesex, NJ521 inA shovel is enough
New Brunswick, NJ829 inGas single-stage
Highland Park, NJ929 inGas single-stage
South Plainfield, NJ921 inA 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 Bound Brook 2W, 1.4 miles from Manville. 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.