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Nearly twenty-five thousand homes in southeastern Queensland found themselves experiencing outages on Monday morning after severe thunderstorms passed over the state, bringing powerful gusts topping 109km/h.

Large Hailstones and Widespread Damage

Residents witnessed large ice chunks reaching sizes of 7cm in particular locations. Weather authorities confirmed that various areas across the state had been affected by substantial ice precipitation.

Today's weather system has absolutely smashed our network!

Utility workers were focused on reestablishing energy supply throughout the damaged zones, with dozens of response units working to address the widespread outages.

Victoria's Climate Difficulties

Simultaneously, around 1,000 residents in the southern state also faced energy failures after the capital city saw its most precipitation in a year and a half.

Emergency response teams received over five hundred requests for assistance across the region, mostly for building damage but also for collapsed vegetation and flooding.

Hardest Hit Regions

• The Werribee area - saw substantial destruction
• Hoppers Crossing area - various assistance requests
• Wyndham - over 175 emergency requests

At the height on Sunday, more than twenty-eight thousand energy customers in the state were lacking electricity.

Weather Forecast

Damp conditions were predicted to continue along significant areas of eastern Queensland this next several days as a atmospheric system continued to draw in moisture against the coast.

The following day was expected to become the heaviest precipitation period, with persistent thunderstorm potential expected across multiple regions of both states.

Safety Concern

Public health experts cautioned that there was an higher risk of weather-related respiratory issues across the countryside regions, specifically given the current weather patterns.

This alert comes after previous incidents where comparable situations led to significant health impacts in the region.