When, eventually, the monsoon storm clouds arrived, these spores may then have been swept up on warm updraughts into the clouds and absorbed into raindrops before falling as blood-red rain.

The prices are not as frightening as you might think, with the best deals available in the early summer, when guests risk the occasional monsoon storm.

The previous typhoon brought the trough more northward, hence the unusually high latitude for a monsoon storm.

During the inspection the monsoon storm breaks.

Due to monsoon storms heavy rains would fall, and washes and street runoff emptied into the river.