Do you need a snowblower in New Castle, IN?
Your answer for New Castle
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in New Castle, about 3.2 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.
A normal New Castle winter
- Snow a year
- 25 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.8 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 30
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.2 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in New Castle
- Nov0.9
- Dec5.9
- Jan7.9
- Feb6.4
- Mar3.4
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.
New Castle and its neighbours
New Castle is number 45 of 88 Indiana towns here for snowfall; Michigan City gets the most at 65 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muncie, IN | 19 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Yorktown, IN | 20 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Anderson, IN | 21 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Connersville, IN | 22 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Greenfield, IN | 23 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Richmond, IN | 26 | 12 in | A shovel is enough |
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 NEW Castle 3 SW, 2.2 miles from New Castle. 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.