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* Burl Ives' "Snow for Johnny" is about a youngster "way down in Louisian'" who prays for it to snow so he can build a snowman. Sure enough, come Christmas morning...

* Burl Ives' song "Snow for Johnny" is about a youngster "way down in Louisian'" who prays for it to snow so he can build a snowman. Sure enough, come Christmas morning...

* Burl Ives' song "Snow for Johnny" is about a Louisiana youngster who prays for it to snow so he can build a snowman. Sure enough, come Christmas morning...

A SnowballFight is likely, to show them appreciating it. For some characters, it will be a FirstSnow.

* Played with in an advertisement for the California Lottery. A child wakes up to his father showing him that it is snowing outside. The camera pulls back to reveal street signs indicating that the family lives in San Diego. Pulling further back, it is revealed that the father has used his lotto money to hire snow machines so that his son can finally see snow.

* ''[[DrakeAndJosh Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh]]'' subverts this, a little girl wishes for snow at Christmas in her tropical home and Drake and Josh deliver on this via a wood chipper... eventually. It wasn't working until "Crazy Steve" loaded it up with hard cheese instead of Drake and Josh's original plan, ice, which didn't go to well for them - smashing windows and causing other massive property damage.

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-->'''Duke:''' I'm a reasonable man, Macarthur, so I know this isn't snow.
-->'''Macarthur:''' Don't worry, sir. It never sticks.

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* In the WhoopiGoldberg film ''Call Me Claus'', her character's decision to assume the mantle of Santa not only ends the record December heat wave, but causes it to snow in Los Angeles.
* Similarly, at the end of the KelseyGrammer vehicle ''Mr. St. Nick'', his assumption of his Santa Claus powers causes it to snow in Miami.
* The first present that the new Santa Claus gives at the end of ''ErnestSavesChristmas'' is to let a man who'd moved to Florida for work related reasons have snow on Christmas for the first time in years.

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* Subverted many a time in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', in which Calvin often begs, yells, prays, chants and on one occasion, even dressed as a snowman as part of a decoy, to get snow but is always disappointed. Then again, it may be because he keeps praying to "snow demons" instead of God...
-->'''Calvin's Dad:''' I don't know if your grasp of meteorology or theology is more appalling.
** Then there's the time Calvin was standing at the bus stop alone, and pleaded with the PowersThatBe for snow. He got a torrential downpour.
-->'''Calvin:''' So close... and yet, so far.

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* ''{{Hair}}'' uses this trope in a particularly heartbreaking way -- Claude prays and shouts at the sky for snow early in the musical, and his wish is granted. [[spoiler: But only after he's died, and can see the snow only as a ghost.]]

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* This is half the plot of ''TheYearWithoutASantaClaus:'' the mayor of Southtown, U.S.A. will help SantaClaus get a year off only if [[ChristmasElves Jingle and Jangle]] can make it snow. They, Iggy and MrsClaus have to go to [[AnIcePerson Snow Miser]], but he can only help if his brother [[PlayingWithFire Heat Miser]] allows him, and the two despise each other.
** Another one of Creator/RankinBassProductions, ''TheStoryOfTheFirstChristmasSnow,'' is similar. A shepherd boy named Lucas is blinded by lightning and is taken to an abbey, where one of the nuns, Sister Teresa, reminisces at length about the white Christmases of her youth. Lucas admits to his friend Louisa that his greatest wish is to have it snow. It happens at the end while the two are in a Nativity play, and he says her description is so nice that he can practically see it. [[spoiler:[[TemporaryBlindness Then he realizes he actually is getting his sight back]]]].

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* In the IronMan fic, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6543095/1/White_Christmas White Christmas]], Tony decided to give Pepper a white Christmas in Malibu. Hilarity ensues.
** It actually snowed in Malibu in January 2007 and in December 2008.
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* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', in which Bart asks God for some extra time to study for his finals so he can pass his grade. The next morning, school is canceled for a freak snowstorm in late spring. And then he [[spoiler:''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness actually studies]]'']].

** Another one of Creator/RankinBassProductions, ''TheStoryOfTheFirstChristmasSnow,'' is similar. A shepherd boy named Lucas is blinded in by lightning and is taken to an abbey, where one of the nuns, Sister Catherine, reminisces at length about the white Christmases of her youth. Lucas admits to his friend Louisa that his greatest wish is to have it snow. It happens at the end while the two are in a Nativity play, and he says her description is so nice that he can practically see it. [[spoiler:[[TemporaryBlindness Then he realizes he actually is getting his sight back]]]].

--->'''Fred Astaire''': Say, Bing, how about a little "White Christmas" from ''HolidayInn''?\\

* Guu does this in ''[[Anime/JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Haré+Guu]]'', giving the jungle kids a taste of pleasant winter activities. And then a taste of what freezing to death feels like. She decides to call it a "gift from God".

* Guu does this in ''[[JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Haré+Guu]]'', giving the jungle kids a taste of pleasant winter activities. And then a taste of what freezing to death feels like. She decides to call it a "gift from God".

* Happens on ''WesternAnimation/{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'', thanks to [[MadScientist Heloise]]. Since Miseryville is essentially {{Hell}}, this quite an accomplishment.

* Another example where no one asked for it is a holiday episode of ''TheGoldenGirls'' (set in Miami Beach).

* In one episode of GreysAnatomy, an army doctor formerly stationed in Iraq mentions that their unit somehow obtained a snow machine so a homesick soldier from Minnesota could have a white Christmas. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Awwww.]]

* Happens in "The Land of Decoration" by Grace McLeen where Judith makes it snow by using an artificial version on her model landscape, to avoid having to go to school and face the local bully. Things get more sinister after that, though.

** Another one of RankinBassProductions, ''TheStoryOfTheFirstChristmasSnow,'' is similar. A shepherd boy named Lucas is blinded in by lightning and is taken to an abbey, where one of the nuns, Sister Catherine, reminisces at length about the white Christmases of her youth. Lucas admits to his friend Louisa that his greatest wish is to have it snow. It happens at the end while the two are in a Nativity play, and he says her description is so nice that he can practically see it. [[spoiler:[[TemporaryBlindness Then he realizes he actually is getting his sight back]]]].

* SantaClaus himself does this in ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.

* There's no specific request for it, but a miraculous snowstorm saves Angel's life in a 3rd season episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer.''

* The quoted song.
** Not the one from ''Frosty Returns'', apparently...

* In {{Thunderbirds}}, the TechnoWizard Brains makes it snow ''on their tropical island home'' for Christmas. [[TastesLikeDiabetes It's sickeningly sweet]].

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* While it wasn't exactly ''asked'' for, during Duke's time as the Governor of American Samoa back in the 70's in ''{{Doonesbury}}'', he's standing on a beach dictating a letter to Washington listing the various natural disasters that have hit the island, with a note wondering what could happen next. Which leads to this exchange:

* Subverted many a time in ''CalvinAndHobbes'', in which Calvin often begs, yells, prays, chants and on one occasion, even dressed as a snowman as part of a decoy, to get snow but is always disappointed. Then again, it may be because he keeps praying to "snow demons" instead of God...

* Happens on ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'', thanks to [[MadScientist Heloise]]. Since Miseryville is essentially {{Hell}}, this quite an accomplishment.

* The Disney Channel Original Movie [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256466/ The Ultimate Christmas Present]] Allie Thompson needs a snow day to complete a homework assignment, she and her friend ride their bikes through the woods, steal Santa Claus' weather making machine, and use it to create a snow storm in Los Angeles. [[spoiler: the machine malfunctions and causes an out-of-control snowstorm and threatens to cancel christmas for everyone in Los Angeles]]

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* ''{{Hair}}'' uses this trope in a particularly heartbreaking way -- Claude prays and shouts at the sky for snow early in the musical, and his wish is granted. [[spoiler: But only after he's died, and can see the snow only as a ghost.]]

** It actually snowed in Malibu in January 2007 and in December 2008

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