All very interesting.

Let me assure listers that Buz’s experience is not isolated.

It can happen every time in the wet season in the Asian tropics.

I have had it happen going into Hong Kong, Hanoi and Saigon.

Isolated many solid radar returns, and almost without warning in the middle of the red.

On occasions the good old TS develops in a hell of a hurry.

Flogging up to Hanoi from Saigon one night, the red road ahead was developing so rapidly it pushed me 55 NM out to sea, and still going until we got a warning that the Chinese were not all that thrilled, so just had to go through  the edge of it. Could have gone back except the same problem existed behind.

The same old story ladies and gents.

Nature can kill us, or make life very uncomfortable unless we respect it.

So the same old rules apply.

Stay clear; stay, or get on the ground and wait. TS’s dissipate as rapidly as they start, so the wait isn’t long.