Do you need a snowblower in Mendota Heights, MN?
Your answer for Mendota Heights
Gas single-stage
Mendota Heights gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 6.7 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.
Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.
What a Mendota Heights winter brings
- Snow a year
- 51 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 2.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 90
Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.4 times what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 6.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Mendota Heights
- Oct0.8
- Nov6.8
- Dec11.4
- Jan11.0
- Feb9.5
- Mar8.2
- Apr3.5
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in December. Start and service a machine in October.
Mendota Heights and its neighbours
Mendota Heights is number 39 of 103 Minnesota towns here for snowfall; Hermantown gets the most at 90 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| West St. Paul, MN | 3 | 51 in | Gas single-stage |
| South St. Paul, MN | 5 | 51 in | Gas single-stage |
| Eagan, MN | 5 | 51 in | Gas single-stage |
| Inver Grove Heights, MN | 5 | 51 in | Gas single-stage |
| St. Paul, MN | 5 | 40 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Richfield, MN | 7 | 51 in | Gas 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 Minneapolis/St Paul Airport, 4.7 miles from Mendota Heights. 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.