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Do you need a snowblower in Mount Clemens, MI?

Your answer for Mount Clemens

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Mount Clemens, about 4.2 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 Mount Clemens winter brings

Snow a year
32 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.1 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
43

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About 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 4.2 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Mount Clemens

  1. Nov1.3
  2. Dec5.9
  3. Jan10.6
  4. Feb8.5
  5. Mar5.2
  6. Apr0.7

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

Towns near Mount Clemens

Mount Clemens is number 72 of 90 Michigan towns here for snowfall; Sault Ste. Marie gets the most at 120 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Fraser, MI532 inCordless single-stage
Roseville, MI728 inCordless single-stage
St. Clair Shores, MI728 inCordless single-stage
Sterling Heights, MI832 inCordless single-stage
New Baltimore, MI932 inCordless single-stage
Eastpointe, MI1028 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 Mt Clemens Ang Base, 3.3 miles from Mount Clemens. 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.