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Do you need a snowblower in New Hyde Park, NY?

The machine for a New Hyde Park driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.4 tons of snow on this driveway in New Hyde Park, spread over a few light falls. That is shovel work.

Get a wide plastic shovel with a bent handle before the first fall, and if you have a bad back, consider a cordless single-stage instead: the snow in New Hyde Park is light enough for one.

What a New Hyde Park winter brings

Snow a year
19 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.3 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
20

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 2.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in New Hyde Park

  1. Nov0.2
  2. Dec5.7
  3. Jan2.9
  4. Feb6.2
  5. Mar3.1
  6. Apr0.4

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Towns near New Hyde Park

New Hyde Park is number 90 of 90 New York towns here for snowfall; Utica gets the most at 164 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Floral Park, NY119 inA shovel is enough
Garden City, NY219 inA shovel is enough
Mineola, NY319 inA shovel is enough
Hempstead, NY419 inA shovel is enough
Valley Stream, NY526 inGas single-stage
Lynbrook, NY526 inGas single-stage

Where these numbers come from

Read next: What a winter of snow weighs and Why storm depth matters more than snowfall.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Mineola, 3.5 miles from New Hyde Park. 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.