In elementary school, I misread the word "cumulus" and thought cumulus clouds were actually "Columbus clouds." I realized by sixth grade that I'd been wrong, but I still like the picture "Columbus clouds" gives me of the explorer leaning forward at the front of the ship, guided by the huge stacks of white clouds passing across a cerulean blue sky. So for me, "Columbus clouds" they will remain.
A childhood belief about weather
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when it would be raining the white clouds lost to the dark clouds.— janet
- i thought the sky was white and the clouds were blue. Nobody actually tells you otherwise,do they?— fatcat
- When I was a kid, I used to believe a nuclear plant was a clouds plant and could make magic clouds.— Tommy
- when i was younger i believed that clouds were made from the smoke stacks — lisa
- I used to think the clouds were made of the steam that comes out of the factory smoke stacks.— TJ
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla