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Nearly 25,000 homes in southeastern Queensland found themselves without power on Monday's dawn after powerful weather events swept through the state, producing wind gusts topping 109 kilometers per hour.

Large Hailstones and Extensive Damage

Locals observed large ice chunks measuring up to 7cm in some areas. The Bureau of Meteorology verified that multiple regions across Queensland had been impacted by large hailstones.

The recent thunderstorm has severely damaged our power system!

Utility workers were focused on reestablishing energy supply throughout the affected regions, with approximately seventy teams working to address the extensive power failures.

Victoria's Storm Challenges

Meanwhile, approximately 1,000 residents in the southern state also encountered electricity disruptions after the capital city saw its wettest day in a year and a half.

Emergency response teams received over five hundred calls for help across the state, mostly for building damage but also for collapsed vegetation and water accumulation.

Hardest Hit Locations

• Werribee region - recorded considerable destruction
• Hoppers Crossing - multiple assistance requests
• Wyndham - over 175 emergency requests

At the height on Sunday, more than twenty-eight thousand electricity consumers in the state were experiencing outages.

Weather Forecast

Humid circumstances were forecast to persist along large portions of eastern Queensland this week as a atmospheric system continued to pull in damp air against the shoreline.

Tuesday was predicted as the wettest day, with ongoing storm activity predicted across various areas of both regions.

Safety Concern

Health officials cautioned that there was an greater possibility of thunderstorm-induced asthma across the state's northern country region, especially given the ongoing climate situation.

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