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Line 1: {{trope}} A popular shorthand in fiction is to use snow as a direct indicator of how cold the weather is, and the amount of snow indicates the amount of refrigeration. The reasoning is that snow falls when the temperature is cold, so when the temperature is ''very'' cold there should be ''lots'' of snow. This is not how it works in real life - the colder it gets, the less likely significant snowfall is. In fiction, though? When the temperature drops, get ready for a blizzard. This trope usually appears in fictional works in one of two ways: Line 10: For more details for the scientific reasons involved, see [[Snow Means Cold/Useful Notes\|the Useful Notes page.]] {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == [[Comic Books]] == * Nearly every occurrence of [[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 [[wikipedia:Desert#Water\|the Atacama Desert]] or the vacuum of outer space. * In DC's ''Final Night'' [[Crisis Crossover]], (in which the [[Planet Eater\|Sun Eater]] does [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]) 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. * Storm from ''[[X-Men]]'' is sometimes shown to make it snow in the middle of the savannah in flashbacks. (At least it's not a desert.) == [[Film]] == Line 22: * Subverted in ''[[Fantastic Four (film)\|Fantastic Four]]: Rise of the Silver Surfer'', when the Surfer's passage causes snow to fall on the Great Sphinx outside Giza, Egypt ... ''without'' a corresponding drop in temperature. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * On ''[[General Hospital]]'', [[Mad Scientist\|Mikkos Cassadine]] used "carbonic snow" to instantly create a blizzard in Port Charles during the middle of a long hot summer. * In a flashback on ''[[Heroes (TV series)\|Heroes]]'', Alice Shaw makes it snow in the desert as a test of her weather-manipulation powers. Line 28: * If the desert wasn't humid to begin with, then [[Hand Wave\|it implies]] she has the power to ''create'' water where there was none. * Creating water where there was none is about as unscientific as making heat disappear, after all. * ''[[The Daily Show]]'' recently had a field day with people who tried to use this trope to "[[You Fail Logic Forever\|prove]]" that [[Hollywood Global Warming]] wasn't real. * In ''[[Beakman's World]]'', every episode is [[Book Ends\|begun, ended,]] and [[Reaction Shot\|occasionally interrupted]] by a scene of two [[Funny Animal\|talking]] [[Everything Is's Better ~~With~~with Penguins\|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. In ''[[Drake and Josh]]'' their sister Megan had turned the thermostat in their room so low that they were just sitting in there complaining that it was cold when snow started to fall in their room. Don't ask how it was possible. == [[Newspaper Comics]] == ''[[Frazz]]'': Invoked in [http://i.imgur.com/muJoZ.gif this strip] with a [[Genius Bonus]] for climatologists. {{quote\| To explain: Mrs. Olsen [[Did Not Do the Research\|cites]] the ~~[[Snow Means Cold\|~~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.}} == [[Western Animation]] == Line 42 ⟶ 43: * In ''[[Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends]],'' Spidey and Iceman first met during a [[Let's You and Him Fight]] situation. Iceman got Spider-Man's attention by causing a freak blizzard during the summer. Iceman wasn't seen actually throwing snow around to do it (as comic Iceman would likely have to. Making ice constructs and changing weather patterns aren't the same power; he isn't Storm.) but appeared to be just willing it to happen. == Other Media == * Whenever a large snowstorm occurs, expect to see members of certain political factions ranting about how "the climate can't be getting warmer because of all this snow!" or something to that effect {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Snow Means Cold~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Did Not Do the Research]] [[Category:Weather and Environment]] [[Category:Hollywood Science]] [[Category:These Tropes Were Frozen Today]] ▲[[Category:Snow Means Cold]] [[Category:Heat Index]]