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Around 25,000 homes in southeastern Queensland woke up without power on the start of the week after powerful weather events passed over the area, producing powerful gusts topping 109 kilometers per hour.

Substantial Hailstones and Broad Destruction

Locals witnessed giant hailstones reaching sizes of 7cm in some areas. Weather authorities announced that multiple regions across Queensland had been hit with significant hail.

Today's weather system has heavily impacted our network!

Utility workers were focused on reestablishing electricity service throughout the impacted areas, with approximately seventy teams working to manage the widespread outages.

Southern State's Weather Woes

Simultaneously, approximately one thousand energy customers in Victoria also faced energy failures after the metropolitan area saw its most precipitation in a year and a half.

State Emergency Services responded to over five hundred emergency reports across the area, primarily for property damage but also for fallen timber and flooding.

Hardest Hit Areas

• The Werribee area - experienced substantial weather impact
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - multiple emergency calls
• Wyndham area - nearly 180 emergency requests

At the height on the previous day, more than twenty-eight thousand power users in Victoria were experiencing outages.

Weather Forecast

Moist weather were predicted to continue along large portions of eastern Queensland this next several days as a low-pressure trough continued to pull in damp air against the shoreline.

Tomorrow was forecast to be the heaviest precipitation period, with continued thunderstorm potential predicted across multiple regions of both regions.

Safety Concern

Medical authorities alerted that there was an increased chance of thunderstorm-induced asthma across the state's northern country region, specifically given the current weather patterns.

This caution comes after past events where comparable situations led to major medical consequences in the state.