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Around twenty-five thousand homes in southeastern Queensland were left lacking electricity on the start of the week after intense storm systems impacted the state, bringing strong winds topping 109 kilometers per hour.

Substantial Ice Stones and Broad Damage

Residents reported giant hailstones measuring up to seven centimeters in certain regions. Meteorological experts confirmed that multiple regions across the state had been impacted by large hailstones.

Today's weather system has heavily impacted our network!

Response teams were focused on reestablishing energy supply throughout the affected regions, with nearly 70 crews deployed to handle the numerous electricity disruptions.

Southern State's Climate Difficulties

At the same time, approximately one thousand households in Victoria also encountered electricity disruptions after Melbourne recorded its heaviest rainfall in over 500 days.

State Emergency Services received nearly 600 calls for help across the state, primarily for structural issues but also for collapsed vegetation and flooding.

Most Impacted Regions

• Werribee - recorded significant weather impact
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - numerous rescue reports
• Wyndham region - nearly 180 help reports

At the height on Sunday, over 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 weather pattern continued to attract humidity against the coast.

Tomorrow was expected to become the heaviest precipitation period, with ongoing severe weather risk expected across multiple regions of both regions.

Safety Concern

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

This alert comes after historical occurrences where comparable situations led to major medical consequences in the area.