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Do you need a snowblower in Waynesboro, PA?

Your answer for Waynesboro

Gas single-stage

Waynesboro gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 4.3 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.

Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.

What a Waynesboro winter brings

Snow a year
33 in
Storms of 5 in or more
2.1 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
44

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 4.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Waynesboro

  1. Nov0.6
  2. Dec5.2
  3. Jan10.6
  4. Feb9.5
  5. Mar6.5
  6. Apr0.6

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.

Waynesboro and its neighbours

Waynesboro is number 26 of 68 Pennsylvania towns here for snowfall; Erie gets the most at 104 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Hagerstown, MD1133 inGas single-stage
Chambersburg, PA1331 inGas single-stage
Frederick, MD2431 inTwo-stage snowblower
Martinsburg, WV2923 inCordless single-stage
Hanover, PA3228 inGas single-stage
Westminster, MD3328 inGas 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 S Mtn, 8.0 miles from Waynesboro. 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.