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Nearly twenty-five thousand households in southeastern Queensland woke up lacking electricity on the start of the week after severe thunderstorms swept through the region, bringing strong winds hitting 109 kilometers per hour.

Large Hailstones and Broad Impact

Homeowners reported giant hailstones as large as seven centimeters in particular locations. The Bureau of Meteorology verified that multiple regions across the state had been affected by significant hail.

The recent thunderstorm has absolutely smashed our power system!

Emergency crews were focused on reestablishing electricity service throughout the impacted areas, with approximately seventy teams deployed to handle the widespread outages.

Victoria's Storm Challenges

Meanwhile, around 1,000 energy customers in the southern state also encountered energy failures after Melbourne recorded its heaviest rainfall in a year and a half.

State Emergency Services received 598 requests for assistance across the state, mainly for property damage but also for fallen timber and flooding.

Hardest Hit Locations

• The Werribee area - recorded substantial storm damage
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - various assistance requests
• Wyndham - nearly 180 help reports

At the height on yesterday, more than 28,000 energy customers in the state were without power.

Climate Outlook

Humid circumstances were expected to linger along much of the state's eastern regions this coming days as a weather pattern continued to pull in damp air against the shoreline.

Tuesday was predicted as the heaviest precipitation period, with persistent thunderstorm potential predicted across multiple regions of both states.

Safety Concern

Public health experts warned that there was an higher risk of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the countryside regions, especially given the existing atmospheric conditions.

This warning comes after previous incidents where analogous circumstances led to major medical consequences in the region.