Radio Propagation
The VHF/UHF FT8 Activity Contest kicked off at 18h UT. See the contesters on this flythrough over Europe. 2m band contacts are the red lines, and as the contacts are mostly tropospheric, the signals are hugging the surface of the planet within a few km.
It's fitting that Dave, G7RAU (author of LiveMUF) is one of the contacts seen in this video (at the bottom end of Cornwall).