Just when you were starting to enjoy some blue sky and sunshine, along comes a trough off the north coast and spoils the weekend.

The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting a high chance of showers from late morning today (Friday), the chance of a thunderstorm later this afternoon, and another wet weekend.

Sarah Scully from the BOM said, "Onshore winds are continuing to bring showers to the East Coast, while a trough develops just off the New South Wales north coast, seeing an increase in shower and storm activity. Now they've got this coastal trough that is starting to deepen, and that's going to bring some instability with also some isolated afternoon storms for the northeast, moderate rainfall totals are possible about the coast north of Port Macquarie."

Up to 7mm may fall today in our already sodden catchment, with falls of 4-30mm on Saturday and 2 to 15mm on Sunday as the winds come from the south/southeast.

The showers and shower or two forecasts will continue into next week., the first week of the school holidays.

We can only hope that the skies will clear for the Easter Long Weekend, although the joke is that it always rains over Easter in Lismore and the Northern Rivers.

The BOM forecast is too early to get a reading on the Easter weather.

However, the long-range forecasts were released by the BOM yesterday, and it is looking like a wet end to April but a drier May.

The outlook for the two weeks from April 14 to 27 is for a 68% chance of above-median rainfall (that is greater than 51.3mm) and a 32% chance of unusually wet (that is greater than 124.8mm).

For May, the odds are much improved, with a 54% chance of above-median rainfall (greater than 138.6mm), a 22% chance of unusually dry (less than 69.1mm), and a 20% chance of an unusually wet May (greater than 261.8mm).

You can check out the latest weather from the BOM via the Lismore App Weather or the Weather Radar.