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

Yesterday it started to sleet during my children skiing 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 produce snow. If youre curious about the answer, I have a couple of fast video explanations for you to watch.

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The Difference Between Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain is a video from a news channel in my home town. This video not only does a good task of discussing the distinctions, its likewise an excellent model for using some easy green screen effects to create an explanatory video.

The following videos describe the conditions that develop freezing rain, sleet, and snow..
Freezing Rain Explained is a video from the Weather Channel. The video consists of a presentation that science instructors could recreate with solidified carbon dioxide in their science laboratories..

Yesterday it started to sleet during my children snowboarding lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on snowboarding. But I heard a great deal 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 response was that while the temperature level at ground level was cold enough for snow, the environment above us wasnt cold enough to develop snow. As a moms and dad who didnt wish to be “that man” in the group, I just drank my coffee with the other moms and dads standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of fast video explanations for you to enjoy.

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