Do you need a snowblower in Watertown, WI?
The machine for a Watertown driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Watertown, about 4.8 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 Watertown winter
- Snow a year
- 37 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 63
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About 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 4.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Watertown
- Oct0.3
- Nov1.4
- Dec8.5
- Jan11.0
- Feb9.7
- Mar4.4
- Apr1.6
- May0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Watertown
Watertown is number 83 of 98 Wisconsin towns here for snowfall; Weston gets the most at 64 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oconomowoc, WI | 13 | 40 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Fort Atkinson, WI | 19 | 36 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Hartford, WI | 20 | 36 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Beaver Dam, WI | 20 | 43 in | Gas single-stage |
| Hartland, WI | 21 | 37 in | Gas single-stage |
| Lisbon, WI | 24 | 54 in | Gas 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 Watertown Wwtp, 1.1 miles from Watertown. 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.