The weather models are a bit undecided about how the coming week will evolve. One option is for predominantly high pressure and a chance of some summer Tropo, which may persist over the sea, but is limited inland by daytime heating.

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Tropo operators should focus on nighttime conditions, unless located right on the coasts. The other version suggests that low pressure will probably win out over northern areas and occasionally in the south, so that is the rain scatter world and it would need some heavy thundery showers to get the best results.

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High summer is not the best for aurora and the Kp index ideally needs to be at least above Kp=5 before we can get excited about radio aurora.

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Meteor scatter has been making use of the decaying Arietids from earlier in June, but we now enter the window of activity (22nd June to 2nd July) for the second shower of interest this month, the June Bootids, which peak on June 27th – they are not a huge rate, but may bring some radio interest.

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The Sporadic-E season is progressing with most days offering something from the 10m and 6m bands within Europe, but a somewhat limited response on 2m. As usual digital modes will be the first to see results, so use the FT8 paths as a guide for the other modes which should follow as the Es intensifies.

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Multi-hop paths do happen regularly, but require beams and a lot of luck for several Es patches to align, which means the best policy will be listening at the right time – this is in the morning for the paths to the Far East and in the evening for those to the States and Caribbean.

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EME now, and Moon declination is decreasing again, going negative on Sunday with path losses rising now the Moon is past perigee. This means shortening Moon windows and lower peak Moon elevation as the week progresses. 144 MHz sky temperature is low, rising to moderate by Friday the 26th.