Do you need a snowblower in Mineola, NY?
The machine for a Mineola driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Mineola, 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 Mineola is light enough for one.
How much snow Mineola gets
- 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 Mineola
- Nov0.2
- Dec5.7
- Jan2.9
- Feb6.2
- Mar3.1
- 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.
Mineola and its neighbours
Mineola is number 85 of 90 New York towns here for snowfall; Utica gets the most at 164 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden City, NY | 1 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| New Hyde Park, NY | 3 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Westbury, NY | 3 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hempstead, NY | 3 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Floral Park, NY | 4 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Rockville Centre, NY | 6 | 26 in | Gas 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, 1.5 miles from Mineola. 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.