I was too young to understand what the weather map was and thought it was some kind of animal. This has a good basis since Kermit the Frog did the weather and I figured he was using an outline drawing of some other animal. This was on Channel 5, Washington, DC, around 1960.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- I thought weather forecasters were psychic and that's how they knew what the weather would be.Anon
- When I was very young, I thought that God was married to Mother Nature, and that together they made weather.Anon
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - I thought that Indian Summer was like the weather in India.Anon
- i was scared to fart outside in cold weather because i thought u would be able to see the steam.— xJeNneSceNcEx