Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

How much snowfall do you average?

I'm not far from #18, coming in at around 71" annually.

http://www.city-data.com/top2/c464.html

I agree.

I can remember winters where it seemed like we only had to shovel 4 or 5 times the entire winter. Rare, but it happens. Then these last 2 winters around here, we literally had to shovel every other day for 5 or 6 week stretches at a time. The reason I even joined this list is due to those last 2 winters. Before that, I was content using my old used 1965 (or so) Ariens snow blower. But if we keep getting winters like they have been lately, I need a more powerful snow blower to do the job. The old Ariens served me well!

snowgo wrote:
Same thing here.  Last couple winters have been brutal.  I was shovelling 12"-18" drifts from my driveway routinely.  The other reason I splurged for a blower this year is that my wife is 9 weeks pregnant with our first.  I know she won't be helping with the shoveling this year.

Hey,

In las Vegas I got about 3 inches of wet snow on Dec 21st, and about 3 1/2 inches of blow sand for the year..


Friiy

friiy wrote:

Does 3" snow shut down the city, like it would in the south?

What's blow sand?

I'm not that sure how reliable those numbers are. I've lived in the great white north most of my life, and am familiar with a good many cities on that list. I've become pretty adept at estimating snowfall over the years (I'm 55 now), and a lot of those averages just don't compute in my experience - several of them seem ridiculously low. Call me skeptical, but there may be some hidden agenda at work here.

Oh no!  It's the black helicopters!!

Seriously, that list would change dramatically if the population dropped down to 20,000+ from 50,000+.  Nothing south of Duluth would likely make the cut.

Oh, Can-A-Daaaaa!

oldcrow wrote:

LOL

Yeah, I'm not sure about some of those numbers either.

Wouldn't you know it though, I bought my first snow blower in September and now this winter had yielded the least amount of snow I can remember in recent years.  My neighbors thank me.

thats a bad list..
they should just lump in suburbs with the main city:

Syracuse & clay should just be syracuse.

Cheektowaga, Amherst, Niagara Falls and Buffalo should just be listed once, as Buffalo..

Irondeqoit doesnt need a seperate entry..its part of the Rochester region..etc..

a poorly done list IMO..

Scot

what a bummer 50 here today in jersey

looks like no snow this week or next!

I might have to move to one of the new england states.

Naw, don't do that. Try Duluth, Minnesota - at a mere 80 inches per year, it would be like no winter at all. Trust me - I've been there.  

Here in the greater Montreal area, according to Environment Canada records, it's been a very slow season. We may be on our way to a record low for snowfall. Seems like all the snow has gone around us this year. We've only had 36 inches to date.

I got my machine in the fall of 08, after the almost record (150 in.) season of 07-08. Not counting that year, we've averaged about 70 in. per year in the last 6 years. If we compare that to the 71-2000 average of  86 inches, you can really see the effects of global warming!

I guess there's only one thing left to do this season  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5NBLUo4ZmY

Cheers