Do you need a snowblower in Marshalltown, IA?
The machine for a Marshalltown driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Marshalltown, about 3.3 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.
A normal Marshalltown winter
- Snow a year
- 25 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 59
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. 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 3.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Marshalltown
- Oct0.2
- Nov1.7
- Dec7.8
- Jan6.3
- Feb5.3
- Mar3.3
- Apr0.7
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in December. Start and service a machine in October.
Marshalltown and its neighbours
Marshalltown is number 35 of 41 Iowa towns here for snowfall; Mason City gets the most at 44 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton, IA | 24 | 29 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Ames, IA | 37 | 27 in | Gas single-stage |
| Altoona, IA | 40 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Cedar Falls, IA | 41 | 39 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Ankeny, IA | 41 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Waterloo, IA | 42 | 39 in | Cordless single-stage |
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 Marshalltown, 2.3 miles from Marshalltown. 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.