Polar paths on 20 continue to shift, and the path to Zone 26 now is better in the evening than in the morning. Signals were often coming through on a skew path across northern Europe. This is similar to the crooked path we get at the peak of the cycle from Indonesia on all bands. I think this has something to do with proximity to the Equator. With the expanding polar night, northern latitude paths continue to improve on 40.
Conditions are best to Europe around our sunset and their sunrise.
Later in the evening, the path will often close because the MUF drops below 7 MHz at high latitudes along the path. This is most noticeable during DX contests. During the evening, we can follow the sunrise path across Russia or work a more southerly path to Africa.