Happy May Day! A ritual in many parts of the world, May Day activities include maypole festivities, picking flowers and dropping them off for neighbors.
Picking lilies of the valley was popular where I grew up 🙂 What are your favorite May Day activities?
History.com reminds us that May Day has to do with the international distress call, “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday”! The “Mayday” code was invented in 1923 by an airport radio officer in London. Challenged to come up with a word that would be easily understood by pilots and ground staff in case of an emergency, Frederick Mockford coined the word “mayday” because it sounded like “m’aider,” a shortened version of the French term for ” come and help me.”
Live Living Planner Events
In May, I’m hosting Live Classes for parents and young adults on Tuesday’s at 4:30p Pacific Time. 5 Practical Tips Before Kids Leave Home is one of my favorites!
| Check out the dates and times here: https://courses.thelivingplanner.com/https-courses-thelivingplanner-com-live-classes |
As the Class of ’22 prepares to leave home, it is great class to help prepare parents and young adults alike for the time when independence includes taking on the responsibilities of caring for personal care and safety. Having information ready to go is a godsend if there is ever a “mayday” call.
Wildfire Season is Starting Early
The National Interagency Fire Center provided an update and advisory 29 April, 2022. https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn
Year-to-date statistics
| 2022 (1/1/22-4/29/22) | Fires: 21,461 | Acres: 1,089,766 |
Wildland fire activity continues in several states where 13 large fires have burned 236,407 acres. Three new large fires were reported in the Southern Area yesterday. Currently, more than 2,800 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents across the country. Six incident management teams are assigned to large fires in the Southwest area.
When you work and play in our precious public forests and rangelands, it is critical for you to be fire safe. Have spark arresters on equipment and vehicles like chain saws, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles. Exhaust systems on any vehicle can easily ignite vegetation, so drive and park in designated areas keeping off and away from dry grass and brush. Taking these simple steps can keep you and our natural resources from going up in smoke. Remember to recreate responsible and prevent wildfires.
The Predictive Services staff posted a new Fuels and Fire Behavior Advisory for southeast Arizona and far southwest New Mexico. It highlights the ongoing drought conditions, dry fuels, and greater than normal fine fuel loading. With adverse fire weather conditions, these fuel beds have resulted in particularly aggressive fire behavior. While the fuels specialists in the affected area have made the effort to issue this particular Advisory, similar conditions exist elsewhere in the geographic area. Read all the advisories on the Predictive Services Fuels and Fire Danger website.
The Predictive Services staff at the National Interagency Fire Center released the National Wildland Significant Fire Potential Outlook for April through July. This outlook highlights areas of the country with the potential for an above normal number of wildfires. Listen to the Predictive Services monthly seasonal outlook podcast.
Weather – An upper trough will move into the central and northern Plains tonight with a strong surface low developing over the central Plains today and tonight. Upper ridging will progress into the Great Lakes with low pressure remaining off the New England coast.
Elevated to critical west to southwest winds will develop across much of Colorado and New Mexico into the adjacent High Plains with an area of extremely critical conditions over portions of northeast New Mexico, southeast Colorado, and southwest Kansas where downslope enhancement will occur.
Elevated to locally critical conditions due to brisk northwest winds are expected across portions of the Lower Colorado Valley into Arizona as well. Elevated to locally critical conditions will develop again across portions of the Mid-Atlantic and southern New England northwest winds 15-30 mph with gust to 40 mph and relative humidity drops to 10-25%.
Showers and thunderstorms, some severe, will develop in the afternoon across much of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma eastward into the Mid-Mississippi Valley.
Heavy rain will fall across the northern Plains with areas of flooding. Showers are also likely to spread into the Northwest from the Cascades westward tonight as well while scattered afternoon thunderstorms continue across the southern Florida peninsula.Â
Here is their PDF of the seasonal outlook from April – July, 2022: https://www.predictiveservices.nifc.gov/outlooks/monthly_seasonal_outlook.pdf
Be Ready for Anything
This week the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California declared a water shortage emergency and moved to restrict outdoor watering to just once a week in parts of Ventura and Los Angeles counties, as well as certain areas of the Inland Empire beginning June 1st.
It’s hard to predict what’s ahead in life. What you can do is control the moment and be as ready as you can for whatever is to come.
I’ve been facilitating business groups recently. Our topic has been Contingency Planning and the discussions have been lively and engaging!
This has prompted me to begin working on a new 12 week live class! It will be a Beta Class (i.e. reduced price and lots of interaction).
Let me know if you or someone you know would like to join in! Planning to start it in June addressing Contingency Plans for Business and Personal.
It’s important to me that I address issues that matter to you. Reach out anytime by email to let me know your thoughts: Lynn@thelivingplanner.com. “Never yet was a springtime when the buds forgot to bloom.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Happy May Day! –Lynn
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