Yesterday it started to sleet throughout my daughters skiing lessons. As an amateur meteorologist I knew the answer was that while the temperature at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold sufficient to create snow. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of fast video explanations for you to view.

Yesterday it started to sleet throughout my children skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on skiing. But I heard a great deal of other parents stating things like, ”
what the heck? why isnt this snow? its cold enough to be snow!” As an amateur meteorologist I understood the response was that while the temperature level at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold enough to develop snow. As a parent who didnt wish to be “that guy” in the group, I simply sipped my coffee with the other moms and dads standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of quick video explanations for you to watch.

The Difference Between Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain is a video from a news channel in my hometown. This video not only does a great task of explaining the differences, its also a good model for utilizing some simple green screen effects to produce an explanatory video.

The following videos explain the conditions that produce freezing rain, sleet, and snow..
Freezing Rain Explained is a video from the Weather Channel. The video consists of a presentation that science teachers might recreate with dry ice in their science labs..

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