Do you need a snowblower in Monroe, WA?
The machine for a Monroe driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Monroe, 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 Monroe is light enough for one.
What a Monroe winter brings
- Snow a year
- 3 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 3
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Monroe waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Monroe
- Nov0.3
- Dec0.2
- Jan0.1
- Feb2.2
- Mar0.2
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Monroe and its neighbours
Monroe is number 75 of 91 Washington towns here for snowfall; Spokane gets the most at 45 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snohomish, WA | 7 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Woodinville, WA | 10 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mill Creek, WA | 11 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lake Stevens, WA | 11 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bothell, WA | 12 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Everett, WA | 12 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Monroe, 1.1 miles from Monroe. 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.