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

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The other day it began to sleet throughout my children snowboarding lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on skiing. I heard a lot of other moms and dads stating things like, ”
what the heck? why isnt this snow? its cold enough to be snow!” As an amateur meteorologist I understood the response was that while the temperature level at ground level was cold enough for snow, the environment above us wasnt cold sufficient to develop snow. As a parent who didnt wish to be “that person” in the group, I just sipped my coffee with the other moms and dads standing in the sleet. I have a couple of quick video explanations for you to enjoy if youre curious about the response.

The following videos explain the conditions that develop freezing rain, sleet, and snow..
Freezing Rain Explained is a video from the Weather Channel. The video consists of a demonstration that science instructors could 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 home town. This video not just does a great job of explaining the differences, its also a great model for utilizing some basic green screen results to create an explanatory video.

The other day it started to sleet throughout my children snowboarding lessons. As an amateur meteorologist I knew the answer was that while the temperature at ground level was cold enough for snow, the environment above us wasnt cold adequate to develop snow. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of quick video descriptions for you to watch.

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