Do you need a snowblower in Oswego, IL?
The machine for a Oswego driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Oswego, about 3.6 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.
What a Oswego winter brings
- Snow a year
- 28 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 42
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 3.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Oswego
- Nov1.3
- Dec6.4
- Jan9.1
- Feb7.9
- Mar2.6
- Apr0.6
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Oswego and its neighbours
Oswego is number 149 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery, IL | 3 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Yorkville, IL | 5 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Aurora, IL | 6 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Plainfield, IL | 7 | 29 in | Cordless single-stage |
| North Aurora, IL | 9 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Plano, IL | 10 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
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 Aurora, 6.9 miles from Oswego. 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.