What’s the Difference Between Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain?

Yesterday it began to sleet during my children snowboarding lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on snowboarding. However I heard a lot of other moms and dads 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 at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold sufficient to develop snow. As a moms and dad who didnt desire to be “that man” in the group, I just sipped my coffee with the other moms and dads standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the answer, I have a couple of quick video descriptions for you to see.

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

The other day it started to sleet throughout my children snowboarding lessons. As an amateur meteorologist I understood the answer was that while the temperature level at ground level was cold enough for snow, the environment above us wasnt cold sufficient to develop snow. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of fast video explanations for you to see.

The Difference Between Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain is a video from a news channel in my home town. This video not only does a good task of discussing the differences, its likewise a good model for utilizing some basic green screen results to develop an explanatory video.

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