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Nearly twenty-five thousand households in south-east Queensland found themselves experiencing outages on the start of the week after severe thunderstorms swept through the area, producing powerful gusts hitting 109 kilometers per hour.

Large Ice Stones and Broad Destruction

Residents witnessed substantial frozen pellets reaching sizes of seven centimeters in some areas. The Bureau of Meteorology verified that multiple regions across the state had been hit with substantial ice precipitation.

Today's weather system has heavily impacted our infrastructure!

Emergency crews were attempting to repair energy supply throughout the affected regions, with approximately seventy teams working to handle the widespread outages.

Southern State's Storm Challenges

At the same time, nearly one thousand energy customers in Victoria also faced power outages after the metropolitan area experienced its most precipitation in 18 months.

State Emergency Services handled over five hundred calls for help across the state, primarily for building damage but also for collapsed vegetation and inundation.

Most Impacted Regions

• Werribee region - saw considerable weather impact
• Hoppers Crossing - various emergency calls
• Wyndham - 179 calls for assistance

At the height on Sunday, more than 28k energy customers in Victoria were lacking electricity.

Climate Outlook

Moist weather were predicted to continue along large portions of eastern Queensland this week as a weather pattern continued to pull in damp air against the coast.

Tomorrow was predicted as the most rainy day, with ongoing thunderstorm potential expected across different parts of both states.

Health Warning

Public health experts warned that there was an increased chance of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the state's northern country region, especially given the existing atmospheric conditions.

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