Do you need a snowblower in Winchester, VA?
The machine for a Winchester driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Winchester, about 3.0 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 Winchester winter
- Snow a year
- 23 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 22
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Winchester
- Nov0.6
- Dec3.8
- Jan6.9
- Feb8.0
- Mar3.8
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in November.
Winchester and its neighbours
Winchester is number 2 of 39 Virginia towns here for snowfall; Blacksburg gets the most at 25 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Royal, VA | 17 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Martinsburg, WV | 22 | 23 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Leesburg, VA | 33 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Warrenton, VA | 38 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hagerstown, MD | 40 | 33 in | Gas single-stage |
| Herndon, VA | 45 | 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 Winchester, 1.6 miles from Winchester. 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.