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What clears snow in New Philadelphia

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.6 tons of snow on this driveway in New Philadelphia, 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 Philadelphia is light enough for one.

How much snow New Philadelphia gets

Snow a year
20 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.4 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
29

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 2.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in New Philadelphia

  1. Nov0.7
  2. Dec4.2
  3. Jan7.3
  4. Feb4.8
  5. Mar2.9
  6. Apr0.2

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

New Philadelphia and its neighbours

New Philadelphia is number 122 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Dover, OH420 inA shovel is enough
Massillon, OH2147 inCordless single-stage
Canton, OH2332 inCordless single-stage
Coshocton, OH2615 inA shovel is enough
North Canton, OH2747 inCordless single-stage
Green, OH3247 inCordless 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 Millersburg, 25.4 miles from New Philadelphia. 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.