July rain outlook fails many points

As July draws to a close the Australian current month to date rain percentages bear little resemblance to the July rain Outlook.
As our commenter has reported – now August is here we can see the BoM max and min anomaly maps for July and you can compare to the way-way hotter looking 25th June Outlooks for July max and min.

Group stuck at flooded petrol station in Whangarei due wild weather

This happened Friday night before 9.30pm reports the NZ Herald. But as of 8am NSW time Saturday I can not see reports of local rain at Whangarei by the NZ Metservice dot com. Can anybody point me to rain data from Whangarei from pm Saturday? Thanks.