Around twenty-five thousand households in southeastern Queensland woke up without power on Monday's dawn after powerful weather events swept through the state, bringing powerful gusts reaching 109km/h.
Residents observed giant hailstones reaching sizes of 7cm in some areas. Weather authorities confirmed that different parts across the state had been impacted by significant hail.
The recent thunderstorm has heavily impacted our infrastructure!
Utility workers were attempting to repair electricity service throughout the impacted areas, with approximately seventy teams activated to manage the widespread outages.
Meanwhile, nearly one thousand residents in the southern state also faced power outages after Melbourne experienced its heaviest rainfall in a year and a half.
Emergency response teams received over five hundred emergency reports across the area, primarily for structural issues but also for collapsed vegetation and flooding.
At one point on Sunday, more than 28,000 electricity consumers in Victoria were lacking electricity.
Damp conditions were expected to linger along much of Queensland's east this coming days as a weather pattern continued to attract humidity against the coast.
Tomorrow was expected to become the most rainy day, with persistent thunderstorm potential predicted across multiple regions of both regions.
Health officials cautioned that there was an increased chance of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the northern rural areas, particularly given the ongoing climate situation.
This warning comes after historical occurrences where analogous circumstances led to significant health impacts in the region.
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