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Do you need a snowblower in New Baltimore, MI?

The machine for a New Baltimore driveway

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in New Baltimore, 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 New Baltimore 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 New Baltimore

  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.

New Baltimore and its neighbours

New Baltimore is number 74 of 90 Michigan towns here for snowfall; Sault Ste. Marie gets the most at 120 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Mount Clemens, MI932 inCordless single-stage
Fraser, MI1532 inCordless single-stage
St. Clair Shores, MI1528 inCordless single-stage
Roseville, MI1628 inCordless single-stage
Sterling Heights, MI1732 inCordless single-stage
Eastpointe, MI1828 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, 6.7 miles from New Baltimore. 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.