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Nearly twenty-five thousand households in Queensland's southeast found themselves experiencing outages on Monday's dawn after severe thunderstorms passed over the region, generating powerful gusts hitting 109 kilometers per hour.

Massive Ice Stones and Extensive Impact

Residents observed giant hailstones reaching sizes of seven centimeters in some areas. Weather authorities confirmed that different parts across the state had been impacted by significant hail.

Today's weather system has absolutely smashed our power system!

Response teams were focused on reestablishing electricity service throughout the damaged zones, with nearly 70 crews activated to handle the numerous electricity disruptions.

Victoria's Storm Challenges

Simultaneously, nearly one thousand energy customers in the southern state also encountered electricity disruptions after Melbourne experienced its heaviest rainfall in a year and a half.

Rescue organizations received nearly 600 emergency reports across the region, primarily for property damage but also for fallen timber and flooding.

Hardest Hit Locations

• Werribee region - experienced substantial storm damage
• Hoppers Crossing - multiple assistance requests
• Wyndham - 179 help reports

At the height on Sunday, in excess of 28k electricity consumers in Victoria were experiencing outages.

Climate Outlook

Moist weather were forecast to persist along significant areas of the state's eastern regions this coming days as a weather pattern continued to draw in moisture against the coast.

Tomorrow was expected to become the wettest day, with continued severe weather risk expected across multiple regions of both areas.

Health Warning

Health officials cautioned that there was an higher risk of weather-related respiratory issues across the state's northern country region, especially given the existing atmospheric conditions.

This warning comes after previous incidents where comparable situations led to significant health impacts in the state.