DCHP-1 Online
goose winter North 
a spring storm of wet snow arriving in the goose month.
See also: goose month
- 1921 Before the bad weather completes its useless work a timely south wind may arrive, and with the aid of a milder spell, will utterly destroy the "goose winter."
- 1921 Then, as likely as not, a few days later, what is called a 'goose winter'--a heavy, wet snowstorm followed by colder weather--may come along and try to drive the birds all back again. . . .
- 1921 Before the bad weather completes its useless work a timely south wind may arrive, and with the aid of a milder spell, will utterly destroy the "goose winter."