The Difference Between Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain is a video from a news channel in my home town. This video not just does a good job of describing the distinctions, its likewise a great design for using some simple green screen effects to develop an explanatory video.

Yesterday it began to sleet during my daughters skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on skiing. 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 environment above us wasnt cold enough to create snow. As a moms and dad who didnt want to be “that man” in the group, I simply drank my coffee with the other parents standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the answer, I have a number of fast video explanations for you to see.

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Yesterday it began to sleet throughout my daughters snowboarding lessons. As an amateur meteorologist I understood the answer was that while the temperature at ground level was cold enough for snow, the environment above us wasnt cold enough to create snow. If youre curious about the answer, I have a couple of fast video explanations for you to enjoy.

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