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Do you need a snowblower in South Salt Lake, UT?

Your answer for South Salt Lake

Gas single-stage

South Salt Lake gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 6.4 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 South Salt Lake winter

Snow a year
49 in
Storms of 5 in or more
2.7 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 5 winters
Days with snow on the ground
45

Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.4 times 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 6.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in South Salt Lake

  1. Oct0.4
  2. Nov7.3
  3. Dec11.0
  4. Jan10.7
  5. Feb9.8
  6. Mar6.4
  7. Apr3.2
  8. May0.2

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

Towns near South Salt Lake

South Salt Lake is number 37 of 67 Utah towns here for snowfall; Bountiful gets the most at 119 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Millcreek, UT456 inGas single-stage
Murray, UT456 inGas single-stage
Taylorsville, UT456 inGas single-stage
Holladay, UT556 inGas single-stage
Salt Lake City, UT549 inGas single-stage
West Valley City, UT652 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 Salt Lake Triad Center, 4.5 miles from South Salt Lake. 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.