Orange Show to start today, no sign of curse

National Weather Service forecasters are predicting sunny skies over San Bernardino throughout the Memorial Day Weekend.

Thus it's unlikely that fairgoers attending the first night of the 2009 National Orange Show Festival will be sent home early tonight, as they were in 2008 when a thunderstorm quickly convinced show organizers to send people home.

San Bernardino lore holds that the National Orange Show Events Center sits on the site of an old American Indian burial ground and that the annual Orange Show is cursed to be held on stormy days. An alternate theory is that it rains a lot in the spring.

This year, meteorologists are predicting clear skies and temperatures in the 80s through Monday. If there's no curse to fret over, that means there's little to worry about other than the recession, the breakdown of California government and the impending war against the machines, i.e., whether the new Terminator:Salvation movie turns out to be lame.