The other day it began to sleet throughout 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 enough to develop snow. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of fast video explanations for you to view.

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 job of describing the differences, its also an excellent model for utilizing some simple green screen effects to develop an explanatory video.

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The other day it started to sleet throughout my daughters snowboarding lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on snowboarding. I heard a lot of other parents stating things like, ”
As an amateur meteorologist I understood the response was that while the temperature at ground level was cold enough for snow, the environment above us wasnt cold adequate to produce snow. As a parent who didnt desire to be “that guy” in the group, I simply sipped my coffee with the other parents standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the answer, I have a couple of fast video descriptions for you to enjoy.

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..