nature: weather

When I was very little, I believed that when people said it might "hail", that little Tasmanian Devils would fall from the sky. I thought they were saying it was "helling" outside.

When they talked about the jet stream on the weather, I thought they were talking about the smoke trails that jet planes leave in the sky.

I used to believe that the clouds had a fixed position within themselves and if I stood in the same place at the same time every day I would see the same cloud pass by again.

I used to believe that the light rays coming through the clouds was God.

When I was child I thought above the sky is filled up with water and when there there is a puncture it is raining

I used to believe that it rained everywhere at the same time. (I came from a small country, it was mostly true.) I don't remember how I explained the fact that we never got snow.

I used to beleive that if you see a rainbow you will get good luck

When I was young I used to believe that when it is raining God is crying or washing dishes.

In Venezuela, kids are told that when it rains but it's sunny at the same time, it is because God and the Devil are fighting

During a snowstorm, that snow that blew over a light was actually a ghost.

I used to think that the sound that you hear when a jet flies over you was made by the clouds moving in the sky!

I used to believe that on a cloudy day I could sing to the sun and it would come out for a minute. I would ask my mom "did you notice any sunny times today?"

I always thought that the layers of the atmosphere (ionsphere, stratosphere, etc) were separated, and that each layer was uniform throughout, rather than all the layers mixed together in a gradient. Also, I thought that atmosphere was contained in a bubble-like shield so all of the atmosphere wouldn't escape out into space. Ozone layer was also a type of shield (I always imagined them as a type of translucent shiny bubble), and the hole was a literal hole where there was no ozone at all. I guess that's what happens from looking at so many diagrams =P

I used to believe that when I sang a song called "Mr. Sun" loud enough, the sun would come out and smile at me. When it was stormy out, I thought the sun was mad. Then, in school, I learned about clouds and weather. I never sang that song again.

I use to believe Smog and Fog were the same thing on smog was darker

A belief from childhood that remained with me until an embarassingly late age, was that the jet stream, that all powerful influence on temperate and arctic weather, was caused by jets whooshing around the planet on intercontinental flights at high altitude.