Solon sits on the western edge of the snow belt. It consistently takes more than the airport, and no weather station publishes a figure for it — so this page gives none.
Solon is inside the primary lake-effect snow belt — the band NWS Cleveland puts at 70 to over 100 inches in a normal season. Cuyahoga County.
No weather station publishes a figure for Solon, so this page gives none. That is the ordinary situation in this metro: outside Cleveland Hopkins, Chardon and Elyria there are no long-record stations, and NWS Cleveland’s community tables only cover the places where a spotter happened to report. Inventing a normal for a suburb would be easy and it would be wrong, so what you get instead is the band, the nearest measured points, and how to read them.
Where the snow belt starts, and why it matters to a quote →Codified Ordinance § 660.05: owners and occupants must keep the sidewalk and its continuation free and unobstructed from snow, ice, slush, dirt, mud, tree limbs and other objects. No snow deadline is stated — the 72-hour clock in that section applies to earth, stone, sand and gravel.
When snow accumulates more than 2 inches, a citywide snow emergency parking ban is implemented. Police can ticket or tow.
The city says it outright: “It is nearly impossible for the plow truck drivers to avoid pushing snow back into the driveway apron.” The berm across your apron is expected, not a mistake.
“When clearing a driveway, snow should never be pushed into or across the street” — and Solon extends that explicitly to contractors, who should not deposit snow in or across the street. The city also warns that snow pushed into the street simply gets pushed back.
Later suburban growth, mostly 1970s onward — the population went from 11,519 in 1970 to 24,262 in 2020. Newer colonials with attached garages are the normal pattern here, which makes Solon one of the few places in this metro where the short suburban apron really is the job.
That works in your favor. A short, wide apron in front of an attached garage is the quickest geometry a plow operator deals with in this metro, and it prices accordingly — a single push rather than the repeated back-and-blade work a long rear driveway needs. It is worth knowing that the older core a few miles west is the opposite case, because a quote you hear quoted at a neighbor’s barbecue may not be for the same job at all.
Solon publishes its plow priority: state and secondary routes such as SOM Center Road and Aurora Road first, then industrial streets and residential hills, then the remaining residential streets. Drivers are asked to stay at least 50 feet back from plow trucks.
The contractor clause matters when you are choosing one. An operator who piles your drive into the street in Solon is creating a problem the city has named in writing, and it is your address it is attached to.
The address, the length of the driveway, whether the garage is attached or at the back of the lot, and what else has to be cleared. Four facts and the quote stops being a range.
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