Do you need a snowblower in Trenton, NJ?
What clears snow in Trenton
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Trenton, about 3.5 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.
What a Trenton winter brings
- Snow a year
- 27 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 24
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Trenton
- Oct0.1
- Nov0.5
- Dec4.6
- Jan8.2
- Feb8.7
- Mar4.0
- Apr0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in November.
Towns near Trenton
Trenton is number 71 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princeton, NJ | 11 | 24 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Burlington, NJ | 11 | 25 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Manville, NJ | 24 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Philadelphia, PA | 25 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| New Brunswick, NJ | 25 | 29 in | Gas single-stage |
| Somerville, NJ | 25 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Ewing Twp 0.8 ESE, 2.8 miles from Trenton. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.