The other day it started to sleet throughout my children skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on skiing. However 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 environment above us wasnt cold sufficient to develop snow. As a parent who didnt want to be “that man” in the group, I just sipped my coffee with the other parents standing in the sleet. I have a couple of fast video descriptions for you to watch if youre curious about the response.

The following videos discuss 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 might 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 only does an excellent job of explaining the differences, its also a good model for using some simple green screen impacts to develop an explanatory video.

Yesterday it began to sleet throughout my daughters snowboarding lessons. 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. If youre curious about the response, I have a couple of fast video descriptions for you to watch.

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