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Around 25,000 households in south-east Queensland were left experiencing outages on Monday's dawn after severe thunderstorms impacted the state, bringing powerful gusts reaching 109 kilometers per hour.

Massive Frozen Precipitation and Extensive Impact

Locals witnessed large ice chunks measuring up to 7cm in particular locations. The Bureau of Meteorology confirmed that various areas across the state had been impacted by large hailstones.

Today's weather system has heavily impacted our infrastructure!

Utility workers were working to restore energy supply throughout the impacted areas, with nearly 70 crews activated to address the extensive power failures.

Southern State's Storm Challenges

Simultaneously, around 1,000 residents in Victoria also experienced energy failures after Melbourne recorded its heaviest rainfall in over 500 days.

State Emergency Services received over five hundred requests for assistance across the state, mostly for property damage but also for collapsed vegetation and inundation.

Most Impacted Locations

• Werribee - recorded considerable storm damage
• Hoppers Crossing area - various rescue reports
• Wyndham area - 179 help reports

At the height on yesterday, over twenty-eight thousand energy customers in the state were without power.

Meteorological Predictions

Damp conditions were expected to linger along significant areas of the state's eastern regions this week as a atmospheric system continued to attract humidity against the coastal areas.

Tomorrow was predicted as the heaviest precipitation period, with continued thunderstorm potential expected across multiple regions of both areas.

Health Warning

Public health experts cautioned that there was an greater possibility of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the northern rural areas, specifically given the current weather patterns.

This alert comes after historical occurrences where comparable situations led to major medical consequences in the state.