weather

The first time I saw fog, I thought the air had turned sour.

jamby

I used to believe that when windmills spun round they were making wind. They only spun round on windy days and stayed still on sunny days, so i never doubted my belief. I never could understand why people wanted to make it windy, STUPID PEOPLE!!!!!

Claire-Ponteland (UK)

ok. when I was young we would travel to visit my Grandad. We passed sugar mills, car factories, and other large buildings along the way.
well, listening to the radio weather updates in the car I always thought they said the tempeture at "the windshield factory" is such and such degrees. I figured that was a place we passed on the way to Grandads. I was 16/17 before I ever figured out they were saying "THE WIND CHILL FACTOR" DOH!

myla

I used to believe that there were male and female rainbows. Male rainbows were shaped like a curved arch (what you usually see) and female rainbows were shaped like a ribbon tied in a bow. Of course, female rainbows were very rare.

Karen

I used to think that rain was God crying over man's sins.

Linda

During one snowy day when we were about 12 years old, my friend revealed to me that he still believed what his mother told him, when he was little, about where snow came from: That snow was actually clouds that fell to earth. I chastised him no end.

Lamont D. Sanford

I used to believe that the smell of chocolate was a universal sign that it was going to rain. Adults would say, "I can smell chocolate. It must be going to rain." Then I realized that it was because I lived in Selly Oak, Birmingham and the wind that came from the direction of Cadbury's factory was the wind that often brought rain.

Margaret

I used to believe that tornados were giants that looked like the Jolly Green Giant except that they were red like tomatoes. I was always afraid one would come loudly walking up to our house and try to reach in thru our back windows to get me.

Lisa

I had a charming meteorological theory when I was young.

Drizzle - God's spit
Snow - God's dandruff
Rain - God, er, relieving himself.

St Sauverais

I used to think that when it rained the angel/fairies were watering us with little watering cans! as though helping us to grow!

Sez

I was told that "thunder" was the result of the giants, who lived in the clouds, moving house. What a fool!

If cows were sat down, it meant it was going to rain.

Eating your crusts on bread would make your hair curly. We had to eat them whether we wanted curly hair or no!

Sue

I don't know how young I was when I thought I learned this, but up until very recently, I thought it had to be exactly 32 degrees F. in order for it to snow. That, and if it goes below 32 degrees, it's too cold to snow.

Li A

when i was little my mum was always saying every time there was a black sky "Ooh, look, it's black over Bill's mothers". The trouble was that my Grandad's name was Bill and I can remember once coming back from holiday on the motorway and my Mum said it again as there was a massive grey thunder-cloud in the sky. I remember thinking "God, where ever we are, she always seems to know what direction Grandad's mum's house is in!" Then one day me and my Mum and Dad were driving along in the car again and the radio presenter said "and here is todays weather, ooh, it looks a bit black over bill's mothers" i was well shocked and i thought "how does he know grandad?!"

Laura A

I used to belive that in the fall when the leafs fell from the trees, it was the long neck dinosaur ghosts eating them. You would see them on the ground becaus ethe ghosts arent solid.

Shanana-o

I was brought up in England near a golf course which had a stream running through it, into which I fell one day, and it was very cold. When I was about 4 my mother told me that the "golf" stream kept England warm which I could not credit as it was so small and so cold. Not for years did i realise that she had said the "gulf" stream.

Anon

The sun and moon had bodys you just couldn't see them because thye clouds hid them

katherine

A very dear(teen)friend of mine belived it went dark at night because the
'Darkness' clouds came round our side of world'-what a girl!

Chris