Do you need a snowblower in Pottstown, PA?
Your answer for Pottstown
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Pottstown, 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 Pottstown is light enough for one.
How much snow Pottstown gets
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.5 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 27
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Pottstown
- Oct0.1
- Dec0.2
- Jan1.4
- Feb1.9
- Mar0.6
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Pottstown and its neighbours
Pottstown is number 68 of 68 Pennsylvania towns here for snowfall; Erie gets the most at 104 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenixville, PA | 10 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Reading, PA | 16 | 27 in | Gas single-stage |
| Wyomissing, PA | 18 | 27 in | Gas single-stage |
| Norristown, PA | 18 | 25 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Lansdale, PA | 19 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| West Chester, PA | 20 | 31 in | Two-stage snowblower |
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 Bechtelsville 1ENE, 8.9 miles from Pottstown. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.