robin snow†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a late snowstorm, coming at about the time the robins, heralds of spring, are due to return.

Quotations

1947

Once in a while we have a snow flurry [in May]--"robin snow," we call it.

1955

Others call it the "Robin Storm," presumably on the theory that the . . . robins [sneak up] into the trees, under the cover of the snow.