Yesterday it started to sleet during my daughters skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on snowboarding. I heard a lot of other moms and dads saying things like, ”
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 enough to produce snow. As a moms and dad who didnt desire to be “that person” in the group, I simply sipped my coffee with the other parents standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of quick 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 hometown. This video not only does an excellent task of explaining the differences, its also an excellent design for utilizing some simple green screen impacts to develop an explanatory video.

Yesterday it started to sleet during my daughters skiing lessons. As an amateur meteorologist I understood the answer was that while the temperature at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold sufficient to create snow. If youre curious about the answer, I have a couple of quick video descriptions for you to view.

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 teachers might recreate with dry ice in their science labs..