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

Yesterday it started to sleet during my daughters skiing lessons. As an amateur meteorologist I knew the response was that while the temperature at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold adequate to develop snow. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of quick video explanations for you to enjoy.

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The other day it began to sleet during my daughters skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on skiing. I heard a lot of other parents 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 atmosphere above us wasnt cold sufficient to develop snow. As a moms and dad who didnt wish to be “that person” in the group, I simply drank my coffee with the other parents standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of fast video descriptions for you to view.

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 includes 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 hometown. This video not only does a great task of describing the differences, its likewise a good design for utilizing some easy green screen effects to develop an explanatory video.

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