When I was young, I used to watch jumbo jets flying over our house, high in the sky. When the steam from the engines came spraying out the back of the planes, I thought that that is what created clouds and I always ran to my mom and told her that it was going to rain later.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- When I was young, I thought that the smoke that jets leave behind them was how clouds were formed. — Rebecca
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- I used to believe clouds were formed by jets and their exhaust. — Olivia
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- I thought planes collected clouds to make cotton balls.— Eddie