Yesterday it started to sleet during my children snowboarding lessons. 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 adequate to create snow. If youre curious about the answer, I have a couple of quick video explanations 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 demonstration that science instructors could recreate with solidified carbon dioxide in their science laboratories..

Yesterday it started to sleet during my children snowboarding lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on skiing. 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 environment above us wasnt cold adequate to develop snow. As a parent who didnt desire to be “that man” in the group, I simply sipped my coffee with the other parents standing in the sleet. I have a couple of quick video descriptions for you to enjoy if youre curious about the answer.

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

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