Date: 03/31/2001

Number: 1

The last three snow storms of the spring are the Robin's Snow just after or when the Robin's are migrating back to us; the Smelt Snow when the smelts are running in the brooks and rivers near the coast such as the Gaspereaux River just south of here over the Ridge, and the last one is Poor Man's Fertilizer which comes on the freshly ploughed soil bringing with it a load of nitrogen as the flakes pass down through the atmosphere. This storm was probably the Robin's Snow as they are coming back and even starting to sing a bit. The Smelt Snow is usually in late April or early May. The trick is to be able to name/designate the storms in the correct order without missing any or having too many! For instance, if this is the Robin's Snow, then we can only have (by tradition) two more storms, Smelt and Poor Man's Fertilizer. Another storm (northeaster) is already making up off the Carolinas and Virginias now, and that is too early for the Smelts to run. Have fun trying to s

Wolfville, NS

Latitude: 45.1 Longitude: -64.4

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