Do you need a snowblower in Ossining, NY?
Your answer for Ossining
Gas single-stage
Ossining gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 5.1 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.
Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.
A normal Ossining winter
- Snow a year
- 40 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 2.5 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 58
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About 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 5.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Ossining
- Nov0.5
- Dec7.6
- Jan8.8
- Feb12.6
- Mar8.2
- Apr1.8
Snow worth clearing runs from December to April, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in November.
Ossining and its neighbours
Ossining is number 47 of 90 New York towns here for snowfall; Utica gets the most at 164 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleepy Hollow, NY | 4 | 33 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Haverstraw, NY | 4 | 40 in | Gas single-stage |
| Tarrytown, NY | 6 | 33 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| West Haverstraw, NY | 7 | 40 in | Gas single-stage |
| Mount Kisco, NY | 8 | 40 in | Gas single-stage |
| Spring Valley, NY | 10 | 33 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 Yorktown Hts 1W, 8.7 miles from Ossining. 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.