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{{quote|''In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.''|'''[[Mark Twain]]'''}}
 
In most media, either [[ItsIt's Always Spring]] whenever it isn't [[These Tropes Were Frozen Today|Arctic Winter]], or else there will be [[Four Seasons]] -- regardless of the climate the work is set in.
 
The "standard" seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn (a.k.a. Fall) may be employed as a device. Or a close-up on falling leaves, snow, flowers, etc. will be used as a seasonal [[Motif]], to establish what time of the year it is; Compare [[Blade of Grass Cut]]. Or you can tie the plot to the seasons as if they were [[Elemental Powers]] of some sort.
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# [[Bizarre Seasons]]: Regular seasons other than the standard four season climate. These are less common in fiction.
 
The opposite of where [[ItsIt's Always Spring]].
 
Compare [[Temporal Theme Naming]], [[Dreaming of a White Christmas]], [[First Snow]], [[Heat Wave]], [[Indian Summer]].