Overview
- Electric Picnic has started in Stradbally with organisers expecting up to 80,000 attendees and thousands already camping on site despite changeable weather.
- Main Stage headliners Zara Larsson, Sombr and Lewis Capaldi were scheduled for opening-night performances and helped concentrate evening crowds.
- Friday's conditions were changeable with outbreaks of rain and sunny spells that made camping and site movement muddy and slow for many festivalgoers.
- Weather forecasts call for low cloud and early rain that should clear eastwards before sunshine and showers develop, while Sunday is predicted to be the wettest day with heavy, persistent rain.
- Organisers and attendees are monitoring forecasts closely because wet conditions could affect camping comfort, access routes, sound checks and set times across the weekend.