Do you need a snowblower in Norton, OH?
What clears snow in Norton
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Norton, about 3.8 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.
How much snow Norton gets
- Snow a year
- 29 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.9 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 46
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 3.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Norton
- Oct0.2
- Nov2.0
- Dec6.5
- Jan8.8
- Feb5.2
- Mar5.8
- Apr0.8
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Norton and its neighbours
Norton is number 84 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barberton, OH | 3 | 29 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Wadsworth, OH | 5 | 29 in | Cordless single-stage |
| New Franklin, OH | 6 | 47 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Akron, OH | 7 | 47 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Green, OH | 10 | 47 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Cuyahoga Falls, OH | 12 | 65 in | Two-stage snowblower |
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 Marshallville 1 SSW, 11.1 miles from Norton. 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.