Yesterday it started to sleet throughout my children skiing 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 adequate to create snow. If youre curious about the answer, I have a couple of fast video descriptions for you to view.

The other day it began to sleet throughout my children skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on snowboarding. But I heard a lot 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 knew the answer 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 parent who didnt desire to be “that person” in the group, I simply drank my coffee with the other moms and dads standing in the sleet. If youre curious about the response, I have a number of fast video explanations for you to see.

The Difference Between Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain is a video from a news channel in my hometown. This video not just does a good job of discussing the differences, its also a great design for using some simple green screen impacts to develop an explanatory video.

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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 includes a demonstration that science teachers could recreate with solidified carbon dioxide in their science laboratories..