Quiet day on 28 MHz - Wed 1st May 2019

Conditions were very poor on 28 MHz on Wednesday the 1st of May 2019 with just one short opening to Spain in the late afternoon.

Signals heard on FT8 on 28 MHz...
EA4FSB 10m FT8 1445 km 18:00:15
EA3AXV 10m FT8 1389 km 17:00:59
EA7DGC 10m FT8 1643 km 16:50:44
EA7BZO 10m FT8 1682 km 16:29:59
EA7JWF 10m FT8 1580 km 16:28:29
EA5HRV 10m FT8 1505 km 16:26:59
IZ0EGA 10m FT8 1930 km 16:23:14
9A7JCY 10m FT8 1943 km 16:14:48
G0OYQ 10m FT8 579 km 12:04:59
F4HER 10m FT8 863 km 11:53:30

Other than the FT8 signals, I did hear three of the AM70 special event stations from Spain on CW. The strongest of these got up to about 539 which actually sounds pretty loud on a quiet band like 10 metres. No beacons were heard.

Update 21:00 UTC ......It's uncanny. As soon as I publish the post, the band opens up! :o))

Heard one FT8 station in Madrid and the ED4YAK beacon on CW.
EA4GXJ 10m FT8 1325 km 20:58:14
EI7GL 28251.1 ED4YAK/B 21:00 01 May IO51TUIN80FK Spain

Update 22:30 UTC ... Jim G3YLA is publishing Sporadic-E prediction maps on his website as of the 1st of May 2019.

On his website for the E's blog, he writes..."Zones where the contour pattern is changing most quickly, due to movement or development, are defined by coloured lines; red for decreasing and blue for increasing. These rapid contour changes are particularly good places to generate extra turbulence, since these are regions of rapid changes in the atmosphere. "

Going on what I heard today, the hot spot for the Sporadic-E seemed to be roughly south-west of Brittany in France. G3YLA has a Blue region near that point in his prediction for the 1st of May 2019.

Coincidence?