My daughter told me that she thought the falling snow was caused when the clouds got cold and krinkled up and fell to earth. (this is in fact fairly accurate!)
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that sattelite dishes were used to shot down falling meteors that fell to earth.Anon
- My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.— Chalky
- I used to believe that snow on the ground was clouds that were too tired to fly.— alex
- I used to think that clouds were caused by cigarette smoke— Monkey Dave
- I used to believe that driving caused the clouds to move.Anon
- I always thought that everytime it got cold or snowed, the plant Neptune came closer to earth.— Andy T