History Main / SnowMeansCold

* Nearly every occurrence of Franchise/{{Batman}} villain Mr. Freeze ever. If he's generating sub-zero temperatures, expect lots of snow and ice to instantly appear, even if it's in the middle of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert#Water the Atacama Desert]] or the vacuum of outer space.
* In DC's ''ComicBook/FinalNight'' CrisisCrossover, (in which the [[PlanetEater Sun Eater]] does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin) there was a lot of snow. Although the point was made that as it continued, the snow would eventually stop, because all the moisture would have already frozen out of the air.
* ComicBook/{{Storm}} from ComicBook/XMen is sometimes shown to make it snow in the middle of the savannah in flashbacks. (At least it's not a desert.)

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Frazz}}'': Invoked in [[http://i.imgur.com/muJoZ.gif this strip]] with a GeniusBonus for climatologists.
-->To explain: Mrs. Olsen cites the heavy snowfall as proof that "global warming is a crock." Actually, because snowfall occurs due to humidity, excessive snowfall occurs when there's more humidity in the atmosphere, due to increased evaporation of the Earth's oceans and ice packs. Ergo, the heavy snowfall would be evidence ''for'' global warming, not against it.

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* In ''VideoGame/TeslaTheWeatherMan'', Tesla's Snow ability controls the temperature. More snow = lower temperature.
* Microsoft Flight Simulator: When the surface temperature is below 0C, the ground texture is snow. Period. Regardless of what the weather's actually doing, little details like elevation, humidity, latitude, etc.

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* In ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'', the ice-cold ski resort of Barbarossa is covered in snow even in summer.

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* ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'': Played straight in [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/04/11/0776-the-last-answer/ The Last Answer]] to convey visually that it's cold.

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* Parodied by ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' in the "Lord Slug" special, as Goku sees it snowing... and immediately decides it ''must'' be Christmas. Despite it being ''July''.

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* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''; Frozone can't generate ice in a burning building because of the lack of humidity. In normal conditions, he's able to summon impressive amounts of ice from thin air, possibly because he lives in a coastal city and can also use some of the water in his body. This is another example of RealityIsUnrealistic: a major byproduct of most combustion is [=H2O=]; Frozone should not have a problem finding water in a burning building.
** Unless he absorbs water at an accelerated rate and uses his internal stores to make the ice. Can't breathe in the [=H2O=]-laden smoke, no matter how useful it might be to generate ice in a burning environment.
** The scene immediately after that has him drinking a (small) cup of water to produce ice again.

# Snowfall is used as a visual indicator of how cold something is. This typically happens for comedic effect, such as a FunnyAnimal opening a refrigerator door and getting blasted by a flurry of snow. If the temperature drops further, the amount of snow will increase accordingly. This is a case of RealityIsUnrealistic, as snow generally only occurs around the freezing point. It won't snow at all if it's bitterly cold out, though it can sometimes continue to snow heavily while the temperature falls, so long as humidity, the primary reason for snow to fall, persists in sufficient amounts.

* Subverted in ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'', when the Surfer's passage causes snow to fall on the Great Sphinx outside Giza, Egypt... ''without'' a corresponding drop in temperature.

* In ''Series/BeakmansWorld'', every episode is [[BookEnds begun, ended,]] and [[ReactionShot occasionally interrupted]] by a scene of two [[FunnyAnimal talking]] [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins penguins]] watching the show from the South Pole. It is perpetually snowing during all of their scenes, which is particularly interesting because in one rapid-fire Q&A session, Beakman explicitly points out that the South Pole actually gets very little snow.

# Snowfall is used as a visual indicator of how cold something is. This typically happens for comedic effect, such as a FunnyAnimal opening a refrigerator door and getting blasted by a flurry of snow. If the temperature drops further, the amount of snow will increase accordingly. This is a case of RealityIsUnrealistic, as snow generally only occurs around the freezing point. It won't snow at all if it's bitterly cold out.

* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' recently had a field day with people who tried to use this trope to "[[LogicalFallacies prove]]" that ClimateChange wasn't real.

* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' recently had a field day with people who tried to use this trope to "[[LogicalFallacies prove]]" that {{global warming}} wasn't real.

* In ''Videogame/TeslaTheWeatherMan'', Tesla's Snow ability controls the temperature. More snow = lower temperature.

* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': Played very straight -- when Elsa loses control of her powers in the middle of the summer, the countryside quickly turns cold and snow begins to fall.

-->To explain: Mrs. Olsen cites the [[SnowMeansCold heavy snowfall as proof that "global warming is a crock."]] Actually, because snowfall occurs due to humidity, excessive snowfall occurs when there's more humidity in the atmosphere, due to increased evaporation of the Earth's oceans and ice packs. Ergo, the heavy snowfall would be evidence ''for'' global warming, not against it.