The other day it began to sleet during my daughters skiing lessons. As an amateur meteorologist I understood the response 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 quick video explanations for you to see.

The following videos describe the conditions that create freezing rain, sleet, and snow..
Freezing Rain Explained is a video from the Weather Channel. The video includes a demonstration that science teachers could recreate with solidified carbon dioxide in their science labs..

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The Difference Between Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain is a video from a news channel in my hometown. This video not only does a good task of describing the distinctions, its also an excellent model for using some basic green screen results to create an explanatory video.

Yesterday it began to sleet throughout my daughters skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on skiing. However I heard a lot of other parents saying 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 sufficient to create snow. As a moms and dad who didnt desire to be “that guy” in the group, I just sipped my coffee with the other parents standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of quick video descriptions for you to view.