Nice picture indeed and thanks for the explanation, Lou.
How can pilots train to get aware and act timely and correct when approaching such conditions like the microburst?

You've pointed out the first signs, like the increase in speed and lift, is that the last stage where the people in the cockpit can actually do something to influence their fate?
Talking about seconds there, so no big room for discussing further measures. Will the windshear warning and weather radar help them?


And Jay's tip about that other weather program is indeed a nice one. That thing does nice weather so far, similar to my fancy and expensive payware while of course still lacking features to enable a "real weather" in FSX.
But that may well be limited by the FSX weather engine itself, not by the programs, already trying to work around some limitations there.
I've donated over at their site, because the current version really does what it should while not eating any huge resources.