I thought Weathermen said "Windshield temperature" not "Wind-chill temperature" on those cold bitter days, and was convinced this was the temperature of the air when traveling down the road.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you turned the thermastat temperature above 70 degrees that everything would melt.Anon
- My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel
- I was convinced that hot air sinks. Why else are mountain tops cold, and Death Vally is so hot?— Not-my-wife
- My neighbor told me that the insides of acorns tasted like chocolate. They don't. They're really bitter.— Dial Zero
- When I was young whenever I rode on an airplane I always thought we were traveling to another planet. — Dennis Rueda
- I used to think when I was traveling at night the moon followed me!— Joan Escobar