Do you need a snowblower in Somers Point, NJ?
Your answer for Somers Point
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.3 tons of snow on this driveway in Somers Point, 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 Somers Point is light enough for one.
A normal Somers Point winter
- Snow a year
- 17 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.7 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 10
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Somers Point
- Nov0.1
- Dec3.2
- Jan5.7
- Feb5.9
- Mar2.2
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Somers Point and its neighbours
Somers Point is number 111 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean City, NJ | 3 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Pleasantville, NJ | 7 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Atlantic City, NJ | 9 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Vineland, NJ | 23 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Millville, NJ | 24 | 12 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hammonton, NJ | 25 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Atlantic City International Airport, 9.4 miles from Somers Point. 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.