Do you need a snowblower in Sterling, IL?
The machine for a Sterling driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Sterling, about 3.7 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.
A normal Sterling winter
- Snow a year
- 29 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
- 38
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 3.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Sterling
- Oct0.1
- Nov1.8
- Dec7.9
- Jan9.0
- Feb6.4
- Mar3.0
- Apr0.6
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Sterling
Sterling is number 130 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dixon, IL | 12 | 31 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Clinton, IA | 28 | 32 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Freeport, IL | 34 | 35 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Kewanee, IL | 41 | 31 in | Cordless single-stage |
| East Moline, IL | 41 | 36 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Bettendorf, IA | 43 | 36 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 Rock Falls 3 NE, 2.8 miles from Sterling. 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.