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Around twenty-five thousand homes in Queensland's southeast found themselves lacking electricity on the start of the week after severe thunderstorms swept through the area, producing powerful gusts reaching 109km/h.

Substantial Frozen Precipitation and Widespread Destruction

Locals reported substantial frozen pellets measuring up to 7cm in particular locations. Meteorological experts verified that various areas across Queensland had been hit with large hailstones.

Today's weather system has heavily impacted our network!

Utility workers were focused on reestablishing power throughout the affected regions, with approximately seventy teams deployed to address the widespread outages.

Southern State's Weather Woes

Meanwhile, approximately one thousand households in the southern state also encountered energy failures after Melbourne recorded its wettest day in over 500 days.

Rescue organizations handled 598 requests for assistance across the area, mostly for property damage but also for collapsed vegetation and flooding.

Hardest Hit Regions

• The Werribee area - saw significant storm damage
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - various emergency calls
• Wyndham - nearly 180 calls for assistance

At one point on Sunday, in excess of 28k energy customers in the state were experiencing outages.

Meteorological Predictions

Damp conditions were expected to linger along significant areas of Queensland's east this week as a atmospheric system continued to attract humidity against the shoreline.

The following day was predicted as the heaviest precipitation period, with persistent thunderstorm potential expected across different parts of both regions.

Health Warning

Public health experts warned that there was an greater possibility of thunderstorm-induced asthma across the state's northern country region, particularly given the ongoing climate situation.

This alert comes after previous incidents where similar conditions led to major medical consequences in the area.