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Do you need a snowblower in Shoreview, MN?

The machine for a Shoreview driveway

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Shoreview, about 5.3 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 Shoreview winter brings

Snow a year
40 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.1 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
62

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 5.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Shoreview

  1. Oct0.5
  2. Nov3.0
  3. Dec10.2
  4. Jan8.3
  5. Feb12.3
  6. Mar4.0
  7. Apr2.1

Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in October.

Towns near Shoreview

Shoreview is number 79 of 103 Minnesota towns here for snowfall; Hermantown gets the most at 90 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
New Brighton, MN340 inCordless single-stage
Mounds View, MN440 inCordless single-stage
Vadnais Heights, MN440 inCordless single-stage
Roseville, MN540 inCordless single-stage
Little Canada, MN540 inCordless single-stage
Lino Lakes, MN544 inGas 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 U Of Mn St Paul, 6.7 miles from Shoreview. 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.