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Around twenty-five thousand households in southeastern Queensland found themselves lacking electricity on Monday's dawn after severe thunderstorms passed over the region, generating wind gusts reaching 109 kilometers per hour.

Massive Hailstones and Broad Damage

Locals witnessed large ice chunks as large as 7 centimeters in particular locations. The Bureau of Meteorology verified that multiple regions across Queensland had been hit with large hailstones.

Today's weather system has severely damaged our infrastructure!

Utility workers were working to restore energy supply throughout the impacted areas, with approximately seventy teams working to manage the extensive power failures.

Southern State's Climate Difficulties

Simultaneously, approximately one thousand energy customers in the southern state also faced energy failures after Melbourne experienced its heaviest rainfall in over 500 days.

Emergency response teams received over five hundred calls for help across the area, primarily for property damage but also for collapsed vegetation and inundation.

Most Affected Regions

• Werribee region - recorded significant storm damage
• Hoppers Crossing area - multiple assistance requests
• Wyndham region - 179 calls for assistance

At the height on yesterday, more than 28k energy customers in Victoria were experiencing outages.

Weather Forecast

Moist weather were expected to linger along large portions of eastern Queensland this week as a weather pattern continued to draw in moisture against the coastal areas.

Tomorrow was predicted as the heaviest precipitation period, with ongoing thunderstorm potential expected across various areas of both areas.

Safety Concern

Health officials warned that there was an increased chance of thunderstorm-induced asthma across the northern rural areas, especially given the current weather patterns.

This warning comes after past events where comparable situations led to substantial respiratory problems in the area.