Approximately 25,000 households in Queensland's southeast found themselves experiencing outages on Monday's dawn after powerful weather events swept through the state, producing wind gusts topping 109km/h.
Locals reported giant hailstones reaching sizes of seven centimeters in some areas. The Bureau of Meteorology verified that different parts across Queensland had been affected by large hailstones.
The recent thunderstorm has heavily impacted our infrastructure!
Response teams were focused on reestablishing electricity service throughout the impacted areas, with approximately seventy teams deployed to address the widespread outages.
Simultaneously, approximately 1,000 residents in Victoria also faced electricity disruptions after the metropolitan area saw its wettest day in over 500 days.
Emergency response teams handled over five hundred emergency reports across the state, mostly for structural issues but also for downed trees and flooding.
At the height on Sunday, more than twenty-eight thousand power users in Victoria were without power.
Moist weather were expected to linger along significant areas of Queensland's east this week as a atmospheric system continued to attract humidity against the shoreline.
Tuesday was expected to become the wettest day, with continued severe weather risk anticipated across different parts of both regions.
Health officials alerted that there was an higher risk of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the state's northern country region, specifically given the ongoing climate situation.
This caution comes after previous incidents where similar conditions led to substantial respiratory problems in the area.
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