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5	[[quoteright:240:[[WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bambi_snow_3.jpg]]]]
6	[[caption-width-right:240:"Mother, look! What's all that white stuff?"]]
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8	->''"For it was the first snow of the season. And as any child can tell you, there's a certain magic that comes with the very first snow."''
9	-->-- '''The Narrator''', ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman''
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11	When [[InstantIndexJustAddWater water]] evaporates it turns into water vapor, and when it condenses it becomes [[PrecipitationIndex rain]]. But if the right conditions are met, with the biggest factor being the temperature, it can turn into [[TheseTropesWereFrozenToday something magical]].
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13	White petals of rain falling gently from the sky. Snow.
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15	When a character experiences snow for the first time they may feel joy and wonder, or in some occasions, fear.
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17	A SnowballFight is a common way of showing they have gotten used to snow.
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19	When it lasts all winter, see DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas. When it's totally out of the ordinary, see LetThereBeSnow. See also FirstTimeInTheSun, which may coincide.
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22	!!Examples:
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25	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
26	* ''Manga/IWantYourMotherToBeWithMe'': In Chapter 18, Haruka is excited to see her first heavy snow (presumably she used to live somewhere warmer than Niigata, where the manga takes place).
27	* A ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' manga ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzyNB1Jyjqw put in video here]]) about [[MadwomanInTheAttic Flandre]]'s first Christmas celebration. It's adorable.
28	** It's important to know Flandre is permanently kept inside her room [[PersonOfMassDestruction for fear of having her destroy something]].
29	* ''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'': The area around Café Alpha is buried in a heavy snowfall in ch. 91, which thrills [[RobotGirl Alpha]] when she discovers it. After delighting in the scenery, she makes a snowman, and puts some snowballs in her freezer for later.
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32	[[folder:Comic Books]]
33	* Rather viciously subverted in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest''; Suntop and Ember's first sight of snow comes just before the trolls kill [[spoiler:Lord Voll]] and attack the survivors.
34	* Played for laughs in ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', when Fone has the misfortune to be caught out in the first snowfall of the season.
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37	[[folder:Fan Works]]
38	* In ''Eye Of The Fox'' Kira reveals he has no idea what snow is when he sees it outside his window and flatly replies that it never snowed in Fire Country and that he spent [[spoiler:four years in a coma]] when Naruto/Rad calls him out on this. He quickly comes to dislike the cold, though.
39	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10229324/1/What-s-In-A-Name What's In A Name]]'', [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Reiner]] [[OCStandIn Schnee]] fondly remembers his daughter's FirstSnow because it was the first time she said 'Papa'.
40	* In ''Fanfic/SnowAngel'', Maria and Shadow have lived in a space colony their entire life. When they arrive on Earth for the first time, they arrive during a snowy winter.
41	* ''[[https://safebooru.donmai.us/pools/7640 The Flower That Arches With The Sun]]'', the sequel to ''Webcomic/TheFlowerThatFollowsTheSun'', has a short arc where [[OriginalCharacter Youka]] experiences her first snowfall. Yuuka has to explain to her that no, it's ''not'' just shaved ice strewn everywhere.
42	* ''Fanfic/LittleHandsBigAttitude'': Silver and Blaze, coming from a world where a volcano burned down everything, initially mistake snow for ash and are baffled that Allison isn't panicking. Allison has to explain that it's frozen water, which confuses Blaze even further because she can't match what she knows about ice to what she's seeing.
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45	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
46	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' provides the page image/caption.
47	* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'', Manny and Ellie's baby Peaches sees snow pretty soon after her birth. Well, it IS the ice age, after all!
48	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeVIIITheBigFreeze''
49	* [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas "What's this? What's this? There's white things in the air!"]]
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52	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
53	* In ''Film/TheFountain'', the wife asking to go for a walk in the FirstSnow is the BookEnd of the film.
54	%%Zero Context Example:* In the 2006 film [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432289 First Snow]], directed by Mark Fergus and starring Guy Pearce.
55	* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/CoolRunnings'', about the first ever Jamaican bobsled team at the Winter Olympics. The four young men have never experienced winter before, and are stunned speechless as soon as they arrive in Calgary during a blizzard. This is contrasted with their coach, an American former bobsledder who's much fatter than his team and nowhere near as affected by the cold.
56	* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': Because she's lived on Themyscira her whole life, Diana's never seen snow. She experiences it after Veld is freed. It stands out vividly when some falls on Diana's long dark brunette hair, and she goes to catch some on her tongue when Steve reassures her that it's benign.
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59	[[folder:Literature]]
60	* In ''Literature/HowTheGarciaGirlsLostTheirAccents'', Yolanda and her family moved to New York City from the Dominican Republic in the 60's. When she sees snow for the first time, she thinks it's fallout from a nuclear bomb.
61	* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Lion-Gold-Banner-Books/dp/0448043351/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252794077&sr=1-1 Snow Lion]],'' By David Mc Phail.
62	* In ''Literature/TheGiver'', Jonas is very confused upon seeing snow for the first time (because he's used to total climate control).
63	* In ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', Scout's amusing reaction to seeing snow for the first time in Alabama is thinking it's the end of the world.
64	* ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
65	** In ''Fire And Ice'', Fireheart is amazed because he hasn't seen it before; he was shut inside as a kitten when still living with humans. He quickly learns that snow makes it difficult to move around, however.
66	** In ''The Darkest Hour'', Fireheart is out with his apprentice Bramblepaw when it begins to snow. Bramblepaw chases the snowflakes gleefuly, and Fireheart wonders whether Bramblepaw's evil father Tigerstar ever played with snowflakes.
67	** Even Yellowfang experiences her first snow in ''Yellowfang's Secret'' and actually dislikes it. She believes that the snow keeps her already-long fur waterlogged and heavy.
68	* ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'''s Bella Swan first experiences snow shortly after she moves to Forks with her father. Her first thought? "Eww."
69	* [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Drizzt]] from the Literature/ForgottenRealms novels didn't even know what snow ''was'', being a subterranean-born dark elf. He initially found it beautiful, but quickly caught on that it could pose a problem for wilderness survival when he realized the white stuff falling from above was covering the ground and wasn't going away.
70	* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', by the end of ''A Dance With Dragons'', snow is starting to fall in the South - heralding the beginning of a winter predicted to be years long, and everyone is terrified because the situation is so dire from the wars.
71	* Inverted in the Literature/CiaphasCain series: Valhallans hail from an iceworld, and are generally quite inexperienced with ''rain''. As Guardsmen almost never get to return to their homeworlds, they absolutely ''adore'' snowy conditions - while Cain, who grew up in a climate-controlled hive world of unknown identity, pulls his greatcoat tighter and wonders how he pissed off the Emperor this time.
72	* Buck from ''Literature/TheCallOfTheWild'' is a dog from sunny California, so it surprises him when he sees snow for the first time when he comes to the Yukon. He starts trying to taste the fallen snow and trying to catch it when the humans laugh at the sight of him, making him feel ashamed.
73	* ''Literature/TheLotterysMoreOrLess'': Luiz, the Lottery family's guest in this book, is from UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}, where it never snows. As such, when Luiz sees snow for the first time in UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}, even though it's very faint, he's so excited he runs out of the house to go experience it in flip-flops.
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76	[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
77	* In the ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode "Frozen Dick", the Solomons experience snow for the first time. Harry mistakes it for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_bQi6luDTc "albino brain chiggers"]]. Dick and Sally have similar reactions.
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80	[[folder:Music]]
81	* "The First Snowfall", first recorded in the '50s by Music/BingCrosby (and later covered by the Music/{{Carpenters}}).
82	-->Oh, the first snowfall of the winter\
83	Was a day that we all waited for...
84	* "Song of the Evergreens" by Music/{{Chicago}} sings of anticipation for the coming snows of winter.
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87	[[folder:Video Games]]
88	* In ''VideoGame/TheSims2: Seasons'', any player-controlled sim upon seeing snow for the first time will get a memory about it ("Saw First Snow").
89	* ''VideoGame/MarchenForestMylneAndTheForestGift'': Mylne's never seen snow before, what with living in a warm forest all her life.
90	* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Myst}} [=RealMyst=]]]'', Atrus' notes on Rime reveal he'd never encountered such a cold Age before it, and had to come up with new devices to cope with its unfamiliar weather conditions.
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93	[[folder:Web Animation]]
94	* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'' has this in the [[YouMeanXmas Sanguinala special]]... while [[ADogNamedDog Boy]] and Rogal Dorn are walking through [[BigLabyrinthineBuilding the Imperial Palace.]]
95	-->'''Boy:''' [[AllLowercaseLetters dadornable?]] what's that stuff falling from the sky?\
96	'''Rogal Dorn:''' It is snow, Boy. Likely due to a malfunctioning cooling system in the Palace. Which I ''will'' be fixing later.
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99	[[folder:Webcomics]]
100	* In ''Webcomic/MewAndMewtwo'' [[https://www.deviantart.com/tc-96/art/Huey-s-First-Snow-864687366 Huey's first experience with snow]] had Mewtwo brutally throw him face-first into the snow, expecting him to realize that it's not that magical. Huey says "Magic snow!" anyway as [[MamaBear Newtwo]] angrily tackles Mewtwo.
101	* In ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', Quentyn goes from freaked out to "Kid On Christmas Morning" excited when he experiences his first snowfall (His homeland is too temperate for snow).
102	* In ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'', Rumisiel experiences snowfall (from below the cloud line) [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2011-12-12 for the first time]] while staying in Tempest.
103	* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', artificial creature Molly is [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/536 delighted at her first snowfall.]] She promptly runs outside to play in it and make [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/538/ fully-functioning steam-powered robots out of it.]]
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106	[[folder:Web Original]]
107	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA7fbKpqz5c Australians See Snow For The First Time]]: A Website/BuzzFeed video where the website sent a few people from their Australian office to the United States to experience their first snowy winter. The lone girl in the group even admitted that she only owned a single pair of full pants because it's never cold where she lives.
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110	[[folder:Western Animation]]
111	* One ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' episode had SixthRanger Enrique (who grew up in tropical Latin America) excited to see snow for the first time.
112	* In the Avalon Tour story arch for ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' Angela comments on how breathtaking snow and ice are when they land in Norway, having lived her whole life on an island where it was always summer. Gargoyle, it seems, have a higher tolerance for low temperatures than humans.
113	* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': In the Season 1 episode "A Cold Day in Miseryville", Heloise builds a WeatherControlMachine to bring a winter wonderland to [[AHellOfATime Miseryville]] after Jimmy tells her and Beezy about snow. [[{{Satan}} Lucius]] is unsure about how to respond to this new phenomenon's effects on the town and its denizens until he realizes the cold weather can also make people miserable.
114	* One episode in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' is about a glacier moving over Bikini Bottom, causing it to snow. All other hijinks aside, Plankton tries to use the power of the water crystals to rule the world, only to be completely covered in it.
115	* The 1998 UK special ''WesternAnimation/TheFirstSnowOfWinter'', about a duckling who fails to fly south and experiences snow for the first time.
116	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' special "Queen For a Day", Rapunzel experiences an unexpected snowfall and enjoys it; she then declares a snow day for all the kingdom residents. It suddenly all goes downhill when the snow turns out to be part of a curse bestowed upon by the evil Zhan Tiri, which results in a blizzard once Corona is at its weakest and will destroy anything in its path.
117	* ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'' has an installment, "The Big Snowfall," in which Lilly experiences the joys of her first snow day, having moved from a climate where it was warm and never snowed.
118	* ''WesternAnimation/SuperNoobs'': The episode "Let it Noob, Let it Noob, Let it Noob" has aliens Memnock and Zenblock experience snow for then first time in their lives as their home planet never has snowfall. They freak out over it, prompting the Noobs to help Memnock and Zenblock get used to the snow by having them engage in a snowball fight with each other.
119	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'', Kion and the Lion Guard escort two [[KindheartedSimpleton goofy gorilla brothers]] to their mountain home, which is completely covered in snow and ice. Being African animals of the savanna, they're at first amazed at the snow and what it is before they actually enjoy it.
120	* In ''WesternAnimation/YogisFirstChristmas'', snow is among the things that are new to the normally-hibernating Yogi and Boo-Boo.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/PinocchiosChristmas'' from Creator/RankinBassProductions is about the title character celebrating his first Christmas and it opens with Pinocchio seeing snow for the first time.
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124	[[folder:Real Life]]
125	* When the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Philadelphia Flyers]]' mascot Gritty [[https://twitter.com/GrittyNHL/status/1063126093987745795 saw snow for the first time]] during his inaugural season, he tweeted "Zamboni dust! IT'S FALLING FROM THE SKY."
126	* UK documentary miniseries ''Return of the Tribe'' from 2007 followed a group of Papua New Guinean tribespeople visiting the United Kingdom for the first time, including one bit of them experiencing their first snowfall. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q_c-fMtBYg Their first reaction?]] Surprisingly quiet confusion.
127	-->'''Donal [=MacIntyre=]''': For Sam, it just doesn't add up.\
128	'''Sam''': ''(shaking his head in disbelief)'' ...[[LittleNo no]].
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