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Do you need a snowblower in Massapequa Park, NY?

The machine for a Massapequa Park driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Massapequa Park, 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 Massapequa Park is light enough for one.

What a Massapequa Park winter brings

Snow a year
19 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.3 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
20

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 2.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Massapequa Park

  1. Nov0.2
  2. Dec5.7
  3. Jan2.9
  4. Feb6.2
  5. Mar3.1
  6. Apr0.4

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

Towns near Massapequa Park

Massapequa Park is number 86 of 90 New York towns here for snowfall; Utica gets the most at 164 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Lindenhurst, NY419 inA shovel is enough
Babylon, NY732 inTwo-stage snowblower
Freeport, NY726 inGas single-stage
Hempstead, NY919 inA shovel is enough
Westbury, NY919 inA shovel is enough
Rockville Centre, NY1026 inGas single-stage

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 Mineola, 9.5 miles from Massapequa Park. 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.