weather

When i was little, a class mate of mine told me that i would go blind if a snowflake hit me in the eye. Consequently i spent most of my younger years walking around with my eyes closed if it was snowing. I missed out on a lot of good snowballs fights and get severe reprimands from my parents as a result of this!!

Claire Mulvain

I knew there was one sun and that when the sun was shining on our side of the world it was dark on the other. I also thought that there was one set of clouds, and when it was raining here it was clear on the other side of the world!

maria

When I was very wee, I used to believe that I could catch the clouds. Every time the fog would come in, I would run outside with my pillow case, desperately trying to catch them. I thought that if I was sucessful, my pillow case would carry me up to the sky and I could live on the clouds.

Holli M.

When my friend was small she couldn't get the word foggy right. Always said froggy. Her parents thought it was so cute until one day being driven to school on a very "froggy" day she was staring out her window and said to her mom, "Those frogs must be REALLY small!"

Storky

I live in Canada, a long time ago my cousin from Australia came to visit us in the winter. He had never seen snow and was completely fascinated by it. He wanted to take it home with him, so he put it in a cup in his room. The next morning it was all water, and he got so angry because he thought that we had stolen his snow and replaced it with water.

Becky

I was 4 years old and it was my first time in the Netherlands. It was pretty cold outside and being from a tropical country, where it's always 30 degrees, I asked my mom if they could turn off the airconditioning.

Starchika

I lived in Hong Kong my whole life and never went to anywhere cold until my family moved to Chicago in the United States. I had watched many American movies though, and that was my only exposure to snow.

So, the first time I saw snow out my window I ran outside and tried to catch the snow on my tongue like I had seen over and over in the movies. but, I was dissapointed! I had expected it to be sweet... otherwise why else catch it on your tongue?

Lok Yuen

My friend used to believe that snowflakes were very big - only slightly smaller than dinner plates. He is from Florida but now attends college with me in the Midwest. He thought the little white specks, as seen in movies, were merely small ice crystals, not real snowflakes. Only during a recent snowstorm did he figure out the truth.

He is a very bright engineering student and is eighteen years old.

his amused friend

When my mom was little her dad was telling her about tornadoes. Apprently my mom didn't know what a tornado was. She actually believed a tornado was a bird. She asked her dad that if a tornado came through the window, could she shoot it? He laughed and said that she could. but it wouldn't help any.

Hazl

When i was about 6 or 7 I remember asking my dad what the wheather will be like " is it going to be sunny or rainy?" He'd look up at the sky & then give me an answer, which was usually right.
For years i thought he was magical or something.
It took years for me to realise he just watched the weather report! :-0

undertheweather

I believed that wind was caused because the trees moved. I was completely sure my conclusion was correct.

Glenr

I used to think rain was invisible, like wind. When I realised I could actually see it if I tried hard enough, I thought I had superpowers.

Harriet

I used to believe I could control the weather. One day when I was about 7 my daddy was planning a fishing trip and wouldn't take me. We were watching the news and it was supposed to be sunny, I was so mad I couldn't go I wished it would rain. It did. I was so amazed with myself I wasn't even mad when he went anyway!

Melanie

I spent most of my childhood somewhere without any snow, and I read a comic where a boy explodes from getting a snow flake on his tongue.
The joke was because the snowflake was dangerous as it was the result of a nuclear winter but I didn't know what a "nuclear winter" was, so I thought that getting snow on your tongue would make you explode.
Thankfully, my father (who spent a significant amount of his childhood in Scandinavia) cleared that up pretty quickly.

Anon

When I was little, I used to believe that wind was caused by whales flapping their tails way out in the ocean.

Nanohawk

I used to believe that it rained worms, because the sidewalks were always covered with them after a rainfall.

Miss Naive

A friend of my parents was visiting when I was about 5 years old. It was raining outside and he had been out jogging. My mother remarked that he was barely wet from the rain, and he said jokingly that he had been running zigzag between the raindrops. I didn't get the joke, and for at least a year (maybe a few years) I thought it was actually possible to run in the rain and not get wet by running zigzag.

Bjarte Aune Olsen

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

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

jamby

Because the way my Dad described humidity as the amount of moisture/water in the atmosphere, I used to think that if the humidity level reached 100% we would be all covered in water, flood-like, and drown.

Cheryl