When I heard the Shipping Forecast on the radio and they gave a weather report for Dogger (i.e. as in Dogger Bank), I thought that was the name of a dog. I once had some cut-out animals on a breakfast cereal packet, including a dog which I named “Dogger”, the name I had got off the Shipping Forecast! Another thing that used to puzzle me on the Shipping Forecast was when they say “Showers, good”. I thought, how can the weather be good if there are showers? Only when I was much older did I find out that “good” referred to visibility, not the weather!
A childhood belief about radio
others believed things like this
- I thought weather forecasters were psychic and that's how they knew what the weather would be.Anon
- 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
- I used to be very fascinated by the weather and sometimes wished I could have a tornado for a best friend.— Will