Weather Report

We haven't had many lately but there used to be frequent rumors or predictions — it was sometimes hard to tell which — that Comic-Con would leave San Diego and relocate in some other city, usually Los Angeles, Anaheim or Las Vegas. I have spent a decade or two predicting that it would stay right where it is — and indeed, ten days from now it will convene…in San Diego. Where I believe it will remain for a long, long time.

There is at least one lady in this world who is certain the con is secretly planning to move soon to Las Vegas. I believe she also thinks that Trump is still president, John F. Kennedy Jr. is still alive and that COVID was the result of a Penn & Teller trick that went horribly wrong. I still see her posts online once in a while about Vegas and she occasionally drops me an e-mail to tell me that I am about to owe her a huge apology.

There are dozen of reasons why it's unlikely Comic-Con will ever move to Las Vegas but around this time o' year, I sometimes like to post this one: The National Weather Service says that next week when Comic-Con commences in San Diego, the projected average high temperature for the city will be 75° — and down by the water where the San Diego Convention Center is located, it's usually around five degrees cooler than the rest of the city. So call it 70°.

The projected average high temperature for Las Vegas for the same dates is 115°. No one wants to have the con there then unless you enjoy watching cosplayers melt. No matter what they were to dress as, they'd all wind up like this…