Dreaming of a White Christmas/Playing With

Basic Trope: Unless the story is set in a very warm/arid climate, it will always snow in winter.
 * 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."
 * The setting is in Australia.
 * Downplayed: Winter scenes are accompanied by sparse flurries of snowfall.
 * Justified: The story is set relatively far North, in a place that really does get regular and thick winter snowfall.
 * Inverted: The story is set in a place where winter is the Dry Season, and summer is the Wet Season.
 * 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: It snows for the first time that year on Christmas Eve, and all the snow melts on Boxing Day.
 * 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.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: "As you can see by the greeting-card snowfall, it is winter."
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

Back to Dreaming of a White Christmas, and we can have a snowball fight!