SnowfallCheck

Do you need a snowblower in Morgantown, WV?

The machine for a Morgantown driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.9 tons of snow on this driveway in Morgantown, 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 Morgantown is light enough for one.

How much snow Morgantown gets

Snow a year
14 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.5 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 5 winters
Days with snow on the ground
25

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.5 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 1.9 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Morgantown

  1. Oct0.2
  2. Nov0.1
  3. Dec1.6
  4. Jan5.2
  5. Feb5.6
  6. Mar1.7

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Morgantown and its neighbours

Morgantown is number 9 of 13 West Virginia towns here for snowfall; Weirton gets the most at 44 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Fairmont, WV1526 inCordless single-stage
Clarksburg, WV3424 inCordless single-stage
Washington, PA4032 inCordless single-stage
Jefferson Hills, PA4621 inA shovel is enough
Bethel Park, PA4832 inCordless single-stage
McKeesport, PA4925 inCordless 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 Lake Lynn, 7.5 miles from Morgantown. 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.