Do you need a snowblower in Tooele, UT?
Your answer for Tooele
Two-stage snowblower
A storm of 10 inches or more hits Tooele about once every 1 winters. That is deeper than a single-stage intake can swallow.
Before you buy, measure the garage door and the storage spot: these machines are wide and heavy.
What a Tooele winter brings
- Snow a year
- 75 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 5.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 1 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 69
Extreme, among the snowiest towns in the country. That is about 2.1 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 9.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Tooele
- Oct1.9
- Nov10.2
- Dec17.2
- Jan14.0
- Feb14.6
- Mar11.1
- Apr5.9
- May0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from October to April, heaviest in December. Start and service a machine in September.
Tooele and its neighbours
Tooele is number 9 of 67 Utah towns here for snowfall; Bountiful gets the most at 119 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grantsville, UT | 10 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Herriman, UT | 15 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Magna, UT | 17 | 23 in | Cordless single-stage |
| South Jordan, UT | 17 | 82 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| West Jordan, UT | 17 | 56 in | Gas single-stage |
| Kearns, UT | 17 | 52 in | Gas single-stage |
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 Tooele, 0.8 miles from Tooele. 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.