Do you need a snowblower in Midvale, UT?
The machine for a Midvale driveway
Gas single-stage
Midvale gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 7.3 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.
A normal Midvale winter
- Snow a year
- 56 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 3.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 45
Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.5 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 7.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Midvale
- Oct0.8
- Nov6.2
- Dec13.3
- Jan12.7
- Feb10.0
- Mar8.6
- Apr4.2
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in December. Start and service a machine in October.
Midvale and its neighbours
Midvale is number 25 of 67 Utah towns here for snowfall; Bountiful gets the most at 119 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murray, UT | 3 | 56 in | Gas single-stage |
| Sandy, UT | 4 | 82 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Cottonwood Heights, UT | 4 | 82 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Taylorsville, UT | 4 | 56 in | Gas single-stage |
| Holladay, UT | 5 | 56 in | Gas single-stage |
| West Jordan, UT | 6 | 56 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 Holladay 0.5 ESE, 5.5 miles from Midvale. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.