When I was a small child my family - specifically my older brothers and sisters had me convinced that snow was a different color in each state of the country. For example, Vermont had blue snow, New Hampshire was green, etc. Of course, every time it would snow, I would beg my parents to go see the colored snow in the other states because all I ever got to see was New York's snow which was white! Go figure!

Claudia from beautiful snowy white upstate New York!

I used to think that tornados were HUGE scary potatos that had wind flying around them (like Taz the cartoon character), and that it had red beady eyes and fangs and would come after you. I would hide for hours when there was even a tornado watch, with my brother's football helmet on and my parents could never find me.

Anon

I used to believe that when the weatherman talked about the "wind chill" he was saying "wind shield," and that meant they had a giant platform on the back of a semi truck that they could raise to deflect the wind away from the town.

Peter

I used to think God was crying when it rained, he was angry when there was a storm, he was happy when the sun was out and bored when it was cloudy.

caledonia

i used to think that the weather men were soldiers in big black hats and red suits (like the ones outside buckingham palace) and they used to climb up a big ladder and poke their haed in the clouds and tell the queen what the weather was like.
they always got it wrong and i wondered how safe the queen was

ben

I used to think my mum really meant it when she said "it's raining cats and dogs". I still can't help imagining cat and dog rain every time I hear that expression!

Anon

I used to believe that when I was riding in a car, the wind was just blowing REALLY hard. It had nothing to do with the car pushing air.. It was JUST the air.

Em Eliz

You know how on the weather they'll show where the "Jet Stream" is going? Well, up until I was 10 YEARS OLD I thought it was caused by jets flying across the country.

Lord of The Dancing Tea

My little sis used to think that it was god peeing when it rained. I wonder what she thought he was doing when it was windy?

Elle's big sis

I used to think that seasons changed only because and when we got tired of them. Winter, booooring, and all of a sudden, here comes Spring.

Azra v. N.

When i was little my daddy told me that when it was snowing outside the angels up in heaven were chipping ice.

Shannon M.

I used to believe that when the clouds used to come down over the mountains as it got darker that they were tucking the mountains in for bed

Siovhan Salisbury

I grew up in Florida and my grandparents lived in NY. I always loved the snow so my grandfather told me that he would send me a snow ball. Weeks later I recieved a moth ball in a babyfood jar labeled 'snow ball'...I believed for YEARS that it was a snow ball.

Gatorgrl

When I was little, I thought I could controll the sun and the clouds. Thus, whenever the clouds covered up the sun, it was my responsibility to move the clouds past the sun. So, by staring at the clouded sun (not directly at the sun), I would concentrate really hard, urging the clouds to pass. Of course, it worked, and I believed that I had magical powers regardless of how the clouds move on their own accord.

Kelly

I used to believe that the Earth had a finite number of clouds. In other words, I thought that rainclouds just drifted around from one place to another, carried by the wind. When it stopped raining, that meant that the rainclouds had just blown somewhere else. I still remember the day I was watching a little cloud alone in the sky and it melted away, and I thought, "Where did it go? What a minute...clouds disappear?!"

Zikzak23

When patches of fog would form in the hills of eastern PA, my dad would tell me that the rabbits were having carrot roasts and the patches of fog in the trees was the smoke from their fires. I believed that until I was almost a teenager.

Anon

When I was little i use to HATE storms so my dad made me believe that when a storm was coming i should clean the whole house and the storm would go away. Suprisingly it did sometimes! haha.

Abbye

When I was younger, I was always afraid of storms. So when I learned about hurricanes, I was downright terrified.
Then one day my dad told me not to worry, because hurricanes on;y started over large bodies of water, and we live in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.

Well, my next-door neighbor had a pool.

I remember waiting for a hurricanes to start over that pool whenever there was a thunderstorm outside.

Ahh Jeez.

i used to believe that when it rained, it was someone watering us because we were plants that they were growing, so i would run outside and skip around being thankful that they were doing so!

becka

One day when my little brother was about 4 or 5 years old it was raining really hard. I told him the sky was falling, not really expecting him to beleive me. But he did! He started crying and ran and hid under a table. I felt really bad after that so i told him I was joking.

C