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Do you need a snowblower in Montgomery, IL?

Your answer for Montgomery

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Montgomery, about 3.6 tons a winter on this driveway, but it comes in shallow storms a small cordless machine can take in.

Before you buy, check the battery is rated to clear the whole driveway in one charge in the cold, or get a second battery. Batteries lose range below freezing.

What a Montgomery winter brings

Snow a year
28 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.4 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
42

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 3.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Montgomery

  1. Nov1.3
  2. Dec6.4
  3. Jan9.1
  4. Feb7.9
  5. Mar2.6
  6. Apr0.6

Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.

Montgomery and its neighbours

Montgomery is number 152 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Oswego, IL328 inCordless single-stage
Aurora, IL528 inCordless single-stage
Yorkville, IL528 inCordless single-stage
North Aurora, IL628 inCordless single-stage
Batavia, IL928 inCordless single-stage
Plano, IL1028 inCordless 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 Aurora, 4.8 miles from Montgomery. 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.