The other day it began to sleet throughout my daughters snowboarding lessons. As an amateur meteorologist I knew the response was that while the temperature at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold adequate to produce snow. If youre curious about the answer, I have a couple of fast video explanations for you to see.

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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 instructors might recreate with dry ice in their science laboratories..

The other day it began to sleet during my daughters skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on snowboarding. I heard a lot of other parents stating things like, ”
what the heck? why isnt this snow? its cold enough to be snow!” As an amateur meteorologist I knew 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 parent who didnt desire to be “that guy” in the group, I just drank my coffee with the other moms and dads standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the answer, 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 hometown. This video not just does a good job of discussing the differences, its also a good design for utilizing some easy green screen effects to create an explanatory video.