Marine mirage

I witnessed this sea mirage (not sure if it’s actually a Fata Morgana) on the horizon of Southsea Beach, Hampshire, at about 6pm on 18 July 2021. Some of it was on Hayling Island. In all of my 40 years of living in Portsmouth I have never seen this phenomenon before. Glitch in the Matrix?

Rob Shaw

Portsmouth

NOTE: A Fata Morgana is a complex form of superior mirage visible in a narrow band right above the horizon. The Italian term translates the name of the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay (‘Morgan the Fairy’), due to a belief that these mirages, often seen in the Strait of Messina, were fairy castles in the air or false land conjured up by her witchcraft to lure sailors to their deaths.