Yesterday it began to sleet during my children snowboarding lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on snowboarding. 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 answer was that while the temperature level at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold adequate to produce snow. As a moms and dad who didnt wish to be “that guy” 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 watch.

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

The following videos discuss the conditions that produce freezing rain, sleet, and snow..
Freezing Rain Explained is a video from the Weather Channel. The video includes a demonstration that science teachers might recreate with dry ice in their science labs..

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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 just does a good task of describing the distinctions, its likewise a great model for using some simple green screen results to develop an explanatory video.