Do you need a snowblower in Ocean City, NJ?
Your answer for Ocean City
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.3 tons of snow on this driveway in Ocean City, 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 Ocean City is light enough for one.
A normal Ocean City winter
- Snow a year
- 17 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.7 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 10
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 2.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Ocean City
- Nov0.1
- Dec3.2
- Jan5.7
- Feb5.9
- Mar2.2
- Apr0.3
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 Ocean City
Ocean City is number 110 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somers Point, NJ | 3 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Pleasantville, NJ | 10 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Atlantic City, NJ | 11 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Vineland, NJ | 25 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Millville, NJ | 26 | 12 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hammonton, NJ | 28 | 19 in | A 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 Atlantic City International Airport, 12.6 miles from Ocean City. 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.