The other day it started to sleet throughout my children skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on snowboarding. But 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 answer was that while the temperature level at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold adequate to develop snow. As a parent who didnt desire to be “that person” in the group, I just sipped my coffee with the other parents standing in the sleet. I have a couple of quick video explanations for you to watch if youre curious about the answer.

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The following videos explain the conditions that create freezing rain, sleet, and snow..
Freezing Rain Explained is a video from the Weather Channel. The video includes a presentation that science instructors might recreate with dry ice in their science laboratories..

Yesterday it began to sleet throughout my children skiing lessons. 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 adequate to create snow. If youre curious about the answer, I have a couple of fast video explanations for you to enjoy.

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