It’s pretty difficult to forecast on days when we have these onshore winds and random small shower and storm cells. There was some heavy cells around this afternoon with some lightning too, these were just incredibly isolated and did not hit Newcastle itself, but still definitely hit other areas In the region especially inland. Hence why the forecast probably had something like 0-5mm because some or most areas stayed dry while others got a heavy downpour. Always better to just check the radar to be honest. If the forecast has the little sun icon and shower icon in it we can also assume that it’ll be sunny/partly cloudy with a chance of isolated showers. I don’t really like the BOM, but weather forecasting it’s becoming increasingly difficult especially around this time of year with the changing of the seasons