nature: weather

When I was little, I used to believe that the sun followed me everywhere, like a spy and moved willingly. When I got into the car I wanted this to be faster to escape from the sun and when I entered into the house looked out the window to see if it was gone ...

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.

When I was little I used to love snow and I made myself believe that if I looked outside when it was snowing, the snowfall would stop. It happened once and I told my mum about it. She said it was just a coincidence, but I am still reluctant to watch the snow fall... and I am 23...

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!

i used to think that wind came from everybody in the world breathing at the same time...so i always wondered why the wind never smelled minty fresh

When I was 5 I used to believe that a tornado was a big ball that smashed everything that it rolled over.

So one day me and my friend tried to make a tornado trap. We used wood with nails sticking up so that when the tornado rolled over it, it would pop. It never worked, I was upset until I saw a real tornado on tv.

I used to think that clouds were attached to the sky and the earth turned underneath them. Some days the earth turned faster than the day before, sometimes it turned the other way. Wind was caused by the turning of the earth.

As a little freak of a kid I believed that acid rain would severely burn someone, and that it made a sizzling sound upon contact with the flesh.

When I was younger, I thought that snow days when school was canceled it was so all the kids could have a good time and play outside in the snow... it did not occur to me that it was because the cars could not drive on the icey roads... heh heh...

I used to believe…

That the "glitter" in crispy snow was angels

When I was little and I heard a weather report in the winter, I always wondered why they gave two temperatures: one for the "windshield factory" and one for everyone else. I couldn't figure out why it would have to be so much colder where they made windshields. I don't remember how long I thought this before I learned about the wind chill factor.

I used to believe that the wind was from the earth turning.

I used to believe that when it rained, Angels were crying. And when it thundered, the Greek Gods were playing bowling.

When I was young I used to believe that when it rained, God was peeing on the Earth. My grandma got mad.

I used to believe that when it rained in one place, it rained all over the world. When told that this wasn't true, I imagined that there was an imaginary line, and that one side would be intense rain, while the other, only few feet away, would be clear and sunny.

When I was little I thought that all clouds were made from aeroplanes, because they always left a line of "cloud" behind them in the sky