Basic Trope: It's always a snowy winter in Christmas.
- Straight: Whenever it's winter, it snows enough to give a nice, even coat on the ground.
- Exaggerated: At midnight on the winter solstice, there is a huge snowfall that creates an instant "white Christmas."
- Downplayed: Winter scenes are accompanied by sparse flurries of snowfall.
- Justified:
- The story is set in northern Michigan, which really does get regular and thick winter snowfall.
- It's always 'winter' at the pole.
- Inverted: The story is set in Australia, where Christmas takes place on a hot summer day.
- Subverted: The characters walk through a field of snow, which turns out to be from the snow machine at a ski resort.
- Double Subverted: …but the next day, there's a blizzard that leaves a real field of snow behind it.
- Parodied:
- At Christmas midnight in Australia, the temperature instantly drops from 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) to zero (32 Fahrenheit), and a half-meter of snow falls in less than one hour. The day after Christmas, the temperature jumps back up and the snow instantly melts.
- In the future, people celebrate a white Christmas on Venus.
- Zig Zagged: The story takes place over several years. Some of these years have thick snowfalls, but others don't.
- Averted: The story is set in Florida, so no snow is present.
- Enforced:
- The creators want to make Christmas magical.
- It's easier to design it like that than make it realistic
- Lampshaded: "As you can see by the greeting-card snowfall, it is winter."
- Invoked:
- A weather machine is built to make snowing possible.
- Santa Claus makes it snow so that everyone can have a white Christmas.
- A Miami resident goes on vacation to Canada to experience a white Christmas.
- Exploited: Once the snow has fallen, people spend their Christmas making snowmen, going on sleigh rides, etc.
- Defied: The characters go to Honolulu, Hawaii for a tropical Christmas.
- Discussed: "Of course it's snowing. It's Michigan, isn't it?"
- Conversed: "White Christmases are the best ones, aren't they?"
- Deconstructed: The snowfall is so heavy as to impede traffic, making it inconvenient or impossible to have Christmas fun outside.
Back to Dreaming of a White Christmas, and we can have a snowball fight!
