Weather warning looms over Electric Picnic as festival fans brace for further downpours

Weather warning looms over Electric Picnic as festival fans brace for further downpours

Fans at Electric Picnic this evening shelter from a sudden downpour. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

Sat, 03 Sep, 2022 - 18:00
Cate McCurry, PA

Festivalgoers are bracing themselves for heavy rain as a weather warning looms over Electric Picnic.

About 70,000 people made their way to Stradbally for Electric Picnic, the largest music festival in Ireland, that sprawls across a 600-acre site in Co Laois.

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