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Approximately 25,000 homes in south-east Queensland were left without power on Monday's dawn after severe thunderstorms impacted the area, producing powerful gusts reaching over 100 km/h.

Massive Ice Stones and Extensive Destruction

Homeowners reported large ice chunks as large as seven centimeters in some areas. Meteorological experts 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 focused on reestablishing electricity service throughout the affected regions, with approximately seventy teams activated to handle the widespread outages.

Victoria's Climate Difficulties

At the same time, approximately one thousand residents in the southern state also faced electricity disruptions after the metropolitan area saw its heaviest rainfall in 18 months.

State Emergency Services received nearly 600 requests for assistance across the area, mainly for property damage but also for fallen timber and water accumulation.

Most Impacted Regions

• The Werribee area - recorded substantial destruction
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - multiple emergency calls
• Wyndham - 179 calls for assistance

At the height on the previous day, over twenty-eight thousand power users in the state were experiencing outages.

Weather Forecast

Moist weather were forecast to persist along much of Queensland's east this week as a atmospheric system continued to draw in moisture against the shoreline.

The following day was expected to become the wettest day, with persistent storm activity predicted across different parts of both states.

Health Warning

Medical authorities cautioned that there was an increased chance of thunderstorm-induced asthma across the state's northern country region, particularly given the existing atmospheric conditions.

This warning comes after past events where analogous circumstances led to major medical consequences in the area.