I used to believe that the Earth had a finite number of clouds. In other words, I thought that rainclouds just drifted around from one place to another, carried by the wind. When it stopped raining, that meant that the rainclouds had just blown somewhere else. I still remember the day I was watching a little cloud alone in the sky and it melted away, and I thought, "Where did it go? What a minute...clouds disappear?!"
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
- When I saw that the clouds were moving in the sky, I thought it was because of the rotation of the earth.Anon
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen
- When I looked up in the sky and could see the clouds moving I used to think that it was the earth spinning.— JOhn
- I used to watch the clouds blowing across the sky and think I was seeing evidence of the earth's rotation.— Dave T
- When I was a kid, I used to believe a nuclear plant was a clouds plant and could make magic clouds.— Tommy