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smelt storm Maritimes 
a late snowstorm, coming at about the time the robins, heralds of spring, are due to return.
See also: robin snow
- 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.
- 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.