Do you need a snowblower in Mount Vernon, OH?
Your answer for Mount Vernon
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Mount Vernon, about 5.4 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 Vernon winter brings
- Snow a year
- 42 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.8 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 44
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. That is about 1.2 times 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 5.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Mount Vernon
- Nov2.3
- Dec8.1
- Jan12.9
- Feb10.6
- Mar6.5
- Apr1.2
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Mount Vernon and its neighbours
Mount Vernon is number 69 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark, OH | 22 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Heath, OH | 25 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| New Albany, OH | 26 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Mansfield, OH | 27 | 49 in | Gas single-stage |
| Pataskala, OH | 28 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Galion, OH | 29 | 26 in | Cordless 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 Danville 2 W, 9.7 miles from Mount Vernon. 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.