Do you need a snowblower in New Castle, PA?
The machine for a New Castle driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in New Castle, about 3.6 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
- 28 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
- 42
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in New Castle
- Nov0.8
- Dec4.9
- Jan10.1
- Feb7.7
- Mar3.7
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.
Towns near New Castle
New Castle is number 38 of 68 Pennsylvania towns here for snowfall; Erie gets the most at 104 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hermitage, PA | 17 | 68 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Youngstown, OH | 17 | 68 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Sharon, PA | 18 | 68 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Niles, OH | 25 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Butler, PA | 25 | 35 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Salem, OH | 27 | 28 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 NEW Castle 1 N, 1.7 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.