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Do you need a snowblower in Strongsville, OH?

Your answer for Strongsville

Two-stage snowblower

Strongsville averages 65 inches a year, among the snowiest towns in the country. Volume alone needs a two-stage machine.

Before you buy, measure the garage door and the storage spot: these machines are wide and heavy.

What a Strongsville winter brings

Snow a year
65 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.9 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
60

Extreme, among the snowiest towns in the country. That is about 1.8 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 8.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Strongsville

  1. Nov3.5
  2. Dec12.4
  3. Jan18.4
  4. Feb18.9
  5. Mar9.2
  6. Apr2.9
  7. May0.1

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

Strongsville and its neighbours

Strongsville is number 18 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Middleburg Heights, OH464 inTwo-stage snowblower
Berea, OH464 inTwo-stage snowblower
North Royalton, OH465 inTwo-stage snowblower
Brunswick, OH565 inTwo-stage snowblower
Parma Heights, OH664 inTwo-stage snowblower
Brook Park, OH664 inTwo-stage snowblower

Where these numbers come from

Read next: Single-stage or two-stage and Why storm depth matters more than snowfall.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Brunswick 0.5 NE, 4.5 miles from Strongsville. 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.