it distresses me to know that dry microbursts are not common knowledge.
I think that's because they get lumped in with the "wet" kind as a subset of microbursts. The actions on encountering one without warning are the same, after all, only the conditions that breed them and the warning signs that they are around may be different.
The training that I've been exposed to covered all this but overall it is classified as windshear/microburst.
Dust devils - great fun! Just make sure you enter against the rotation at low level.
Thermals - don't get me started...
