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

Yesterday it began to sleet throughout my daughters skiing lessons. They didnt mind and kept right on skiing. However I heard a great deal 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 knew the answer was that while the temperature at ground level was cold enough for snow, the atmosphere above us wasnt cold sufficient to produce snow. As a parent who didnt want to be “that guy” in the group, I just sipped my coffee with the other moms and dads standing in the sleet. I have a couple of fast video descriptions for you to view if youre curious about the response.

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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 only does a great task of explaining the differences, its also an excellent design for using some basic green screen effects to create an explanatory video.

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 presentation that science teachers might recreate with dry ice in their science laboratories..