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

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The following videos discuss the conditions that create freezing rain, sleet, and snow..
Freezing Rain Explained is a video from the Weather Channel. The video consists of a demonstration that science teachers could recreate with dry ice in their science laboratories..

The other day it started to sleet during my children skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on snowboarding. 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 knew the answer was that while the temperature level at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold sufficient to produce snow. As a parent who didnt desire to be “that man” 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 explanations for you to enjoy.

Yesterday it started to sleet during my daughters skiing 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 descriptions for you to view.

The Difference Between Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain is a video from a news channel in my hometown. This video not just does a good job of explaining the differences, its also a great model for using some simple green screen results to create an explanatory video.

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