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What clears snow in North Plainfield

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.8 tons of snow on this driveway in North Plainfield, 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 North Plainfield is light enough for one.

What a North Plainfield winter brings

Snow a year
21 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.1 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
31

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 2.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in North Plainfield

  1. Nov0.2
  2. Dec2.4
  3. Jan5.1
  4. Feb8.3
  5. Mar5.3
  6. Apr0.1

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 North Plainfield

North Plainfield is number 101 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Plainfield, NJ121 inA shovel is enough
South Plainfield, NJ321 inA shovel is enough
Middlesex, NJ421 inA shovel is enough
Westfield, NJ526 inGas single-stage
New Providence, NJ624 inGas single-stage
Bound Brook, NJ621 inA shovel is enough

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 Plainfield, 2.3 miles from North Plainfield. 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.