Growing up in Australia I was used to hearing weather alerts.
One that has been with me for about 35 years (I feel so embarrassed that I didnt get corrected years ago) is where the weather man says:
"There is a sheet weather alert"
Now I thought it meant that the rain was so hard, it's coming down 'in sheets'.
My mum nearly pee'd herself laughing when I recently told her this one.
It's actually a "sheep weather alert" for the farmers.
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
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- 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
- When I was very young, I thought that God was married to Mother Nature, and that together they made weather.Anon
- I used to believe that I could control the weather... I had limited success— Mark