Snow Snow was a form of precipitation which occurred when the air temperature was below the freezing point of water . It fell on planets such as Earth , ( TV : " The Roof of the World " ) Gallifrey , ( TV : " Gridlock " ; AUDIO : " The Toy " ) Sto , ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) the Ood Sphere ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " ) and Ribos ( during its Icetime season ) . ( TV : " The Ribos Operation " ) The Tenth Doctor had a particular fondness for snow , commenting with glee when he arrived on Ood Sphere , " snow , real snow " . ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " ) According to Maisie Johnson , it never snowed on Christmas Eve . ( PROSE : " The Gift " ) Whenever the Eleventh Doctor saw snow , it made him think of Scotland , and Jamie McCrimmon . ( PROSE : " The Silent Stars Go By " ) The Eleventh Doctor once stated that snow could remember , although it existed only as a mirror . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) The snow on Nirvana was pink . ( AUDIO : " World Apart " ) Instances when it snowed . In 1289 , the First Doctor , Susan , Barbara and Ian landed on the snowy Plain of Pamir and had a brief snowball fight . ( TV : " The Brink of Disaster " , " The Roof of the World " ) Upon arriving in 1851 London at Christmas , the Tenth Doctor was very pleased to see actual snow . ( TV : " The Next Doctor " ) When the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler were in Cardiff in 1869 , it had snowed before they arrived and it snowed again after they left . ( TV : " The Unquiet Dead " ) On Christmas Eve 1892 , it was snowing in London although there were no clouds . ( WC : ) The Great Intelligence used animated snowmen to try to take over the Earth , which could form by themselves , due to them being made up of low - level telepathic snow . This meant that if someone caught in the telepathic field was thinking about the snowmen , then more would have been formed . If that persons thought about them melting , they melted . In the early hours of Christmas Day , the Intelligence was overpowered by the tears of an entire family crying for the loss of Clara Oswald , who had just been invited to be a companion of the Doctor ' s before she fell to her death . The snow that had been falling was turned into salty rain , the tears of a certain family . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) In 1898 , when the Eighth Doctor and Fitz Kreiner were thrust into events at Banquo Manor , its grounds were covered in snow . ( PROSE : " The Banquo Legacy " ) It was snowing in Antarctica when Sarah Jane Smith was on the Blathereen ship . ( TV : " The Gift " ) When it snowed one Christmas Eve , Maisie Johnson thought it might be a sign she ' d finally get to meet Santa Claus . ( PROSE : " The Gift " ) 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 . ( TV : " The Waters of Mars " ) Snow fell over Sardicktown when the Eleventh Doctor visited it . ( TV : " A Christmas Carol " ) The planet where the Eleventh Doctor and the Arwells encountered the Wooden King and Queen was covered in snow . ( TV : " The Doctor , the Widow and the Wardrobe " ) Snow lay on the surface of the Dalek Asylum when the Eleventh Doctor was sent there . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) Fake snow . The Doctor has ran into ' fake snow ' several times . 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 . ( TV : " 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 . ( TV : " 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 . ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) The Snow Farm in the town of Christmas created and dispersed snow as a source of providing water to Christmas and other settlements on the planet Trenzalore . Human s like Crantle went on the " snow run " to take sleds laden with snow to the outlying communities . The Ice Warrior Zontan sabotaged the Snow Farm to blizzard the nearby ridge with heavy snow as part of his plan to bury the Eleventh Doctor in an avalanche . ( PROSE : " Let it Snow " ) 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 .