Met Éireann dampens Electric Picnic spirits further with orange rain warning

Day two of Electric Picnic is already underway with Picture This and Tame Impala due to headline today. Picture: Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

It's beginning to feel like someone at Met Éireann didn't get their hands on tickets to Electric Picnic this weekend as the national forecaster has just upgraded their yellow rain warning to status orange.

The update covers counties Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath, Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo, Waterford and Laois where the music festival is being held in Stradbally.