Do you need a snowblower in Marion, IN?
The machine for a Marion driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Marion, about 3.2 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 Marion winter brings
- Snow a year
- 25 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 30
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.2 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Marion
- Oct0.1
- Nov1.0
- Dec5.0
- Jan8.1
- Feb6.3
- Mar3.7
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Marion and its neighbours
Marion is number 46 of 88 Indiana towns here for snowfall; Michigan City gets the most at 65 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wabash, IN | 20 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Huntington, IN | 24 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Kokomo, IN | 25 | 34 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Peru, IN | 26 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Yorktown, IN | 27 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Muncie, IN | 28 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Marion 2 N, 2.1 miles from Marion. 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.