Do you need a snowblower in Olean, NY?
Your answer for Olean
Two-stage snowblower
Olean averages 65 inches a year, among the snowiest towns in the country. Volume alone needs a two-stage machine.
Before you buy, measure the garage door and the storage spot: these machines are wide and heavy.
What a Olean winter brings
- Snow a year
- 65 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 2.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 74
Extreme, among the snowiest towns in the country. That is about 1.8 times what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 8.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Olean
- Oct0.3
- Nov6.3
- Dec14.9
- Jan17.6
- Feb13.7
- Mar10.1
- Apr1.8
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Olean and its neighbours
Olean is number 26 of 90 New York towns here for snowfall; Utica gets the most at 164 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamestown, NY | 41 | 98 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| St. Marys, PA | 44 | 66 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Dunkirk, NY | 53 | 76 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Lackawanna, NY | 55 | 95 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Lancaster, NY | 58 | 95 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Depew, NY | 59 | 95 in | Two-stage snowblower |
Where these numbers come from
Read next: Single-stage or two-stage and Why storm depth matters more than snowfall.
NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Olean, 1.1 miles from Olean. 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.