The other day it began to sleet during my children 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 sufficient to produce snow. If youre curious about the answer, I have a couple of fast video descriptions for you to see.

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

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

Yesterday it started to sleet during my daughters snowboarding 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 answer was that while the temperature at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold adequate to create snow. As a parent who didnt want to be “that guy” in the group, I just drank my coffee with the other parents standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the response, I have a number of quick video descriptions for you to watch.