DCHP-3

smelt storm

Maritimes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the 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

1955
Last Tuesday we had what some old-timers call the “Smelt Storm,” a mixture of snow and rain with the thermometer [sic] hovering around the freezing point . . . presumably on the theory that the smelt sneak up the rivers . . . under cover of the snow.