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Approximately 25,000 households in south-east Queensland found themselves without power on the start of the week after severe thunderstorms impacted the area, producing powerful gusts reaching 109km/h.

Massive Hailstones and Extensive Destruction

Homeowners observed giant hailstones reaching sizes of seven centimeters in certain regions. Weather authorities announced that multiple regions across Queensland had been impacted by substantial ice precipitation.

Today's weather system has heavily impacted our infrastructure!

Response teams were working to restore electricity service throughout the affected regions, with dozens of response units working to address the widespread outages.

Victoria's Storm Challenges

Simultaneously, around one thousand residents in Victoria also encountered energy failures after the capital city experienced its heaviest rainfall in a year and a half.

State Emergency Services handled nearly 600 requests for assistance across the region, mainly for property damage but also for collapsed vegetation and flooding.

Hardest Hit Regions

• Werribee - experienced substantial storm damage
• Hoppers Crossing area - various emergency calls
• Wyndham - 179 emergency requests

During the peak on yesterday, over twenty-eight thousand power users in the state were without power.

Meteorological Predictions

Damp conditions were forecast to persist along large portions of eastern Queensland this next several days as a low-pressure trough continued to attract humidity against the coast.

Tomorrow was expected to become the most rainy day, with continued thunderstorm potential anticipated across various areas of both states.

Safety Concern

Public health experts cautioned that there was an increased chance of thunderstorm-induced asthma across the state's northern country region, specifically given the existing atmospheric conditions.

This warning comes after past events where analogous circumstances led to significant health impacts in the area.