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Snow was a form of precipitation which occurred only when the atmospheric temperature was below the freezing point of water. It fell on planets other than Earth, including Gallifrey, Sto, Ood Sphere and Ribos (during its Icetime season). The Tenth Doctor had a particular fondness for snow, commenting with glee when he arrived on Ood Sphere, "snow, real snow". (DW: Gridlock, Voyage of the Damned, The Ribos Operation, Planet of the Ood)
Whilst on Earth, the Doctor sometimes found himself in snowy conditions:
- In 1289, the First Doctor, Susan, Barbara and Ian landed on the snowy Plain of Pamir and had a brief snowball fight. (DW: The Edge of Destruction, Marco Polo)
- Upon arriving alone in 1851 London at Christmas, the Tenth Doctor was very pleased to see actual snow. (DW: The Next Doctor)
- When the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler were in Cardiff in 1869, it snowed before their arrival and after their departure. (DW: The Unquiet Dead)
- In 1898, when the Eighth Doctor and Fitz Kreiner were thrust into events at Banquo Manor, its grounds were covered in snow. (EDA: The Banquo Legacy)
- In 2059, the Tenth Doctor was happy to see real snow on Earth after bringing the remaining crew of Bowie Base One back from Mars. (DW: The Waters of Mars)
- Whenever the Eleventh Doctor saw snow, it made him think of Scotland, and Jamie McCrimmon. (NSA: The Silent Stars Go By)
Fake snow
The Tenth Doctor ran into "fake snow" on Earth on three consecutive Christmases. His repeated failure to encounter genuine snow made him extremely grateful when, on the planet of the Ood, he finally saw "real" snow. (DW: Planet of the Ood)
During Christmas Day, 2006 the "snow" falling on London was in fact ashes from the remnants of the Sycorax space ship that had been destroyed by the Torchwood Institute, on Harriet Jones' order. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
During Christmas, 2007 the tenth incarnation of the Doctor used his TARDIS to excite the atmospheric conditions around London to create snow. Although presumably "real" in that it was a form of water, it wasn't "naturally occurring" snow. (DW: The Runaway Bride)
On Christmas Day, 2008 the ballast from the spaceship Titanic went through the atmosphere, where reentry resulted in another instance of falling ash that resembled snow. (DW: Voyage of the Damned)
Behind the scenes
- One of the deleted scenes for The Waters of Mars showed the Tenth Doctor expressing his love for snow, only to have Yuri Kerenski disappoint him, by telling him that it's the "carbon wash" cleaning the atmosphere. As this event didn't make it to screen, however, it's not considered — by this wiki —to have actually happened in the DWU.
