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Nearly 25,000 households in southeastern Queensland woke up lacking electricity on Monday morning after intense storm systems passed over the region, bringing strong winds reaching 109km/h.

Substantial Frozen Precipitation and Widespread Damage

Homeowners witnessed large ice chunks reaching sizes of 7cm in some areas. Weather authorities confirmed that different parts across the state had been hit with large hailstones.

Today's weather system has absolutely smashed our network!

Response teams were attempting to repair energy supply throughout the affected regions, with approximately seventy teams activated to handle the numerous electricity disruptions.

Southern State's Weather Woes

At the same time, nearly 1,000 households in Victoria also experienced electricity disruptions after Melbourne experienced its most precipitation in over 500 days.

Emergency response teams responded to nearly 600 emergency reports across the region, mostly for property damage but also for collapsed vegetation and flooding.

Hardest Hit Regions

• The Werribee area - recorded considerable storm damage
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - various emergency calls
• Wyndham - 179 help reports

During the peak on the previous day, over twenty-eight thousand energy customers in Victoria were experiencing outages.

Weather Forecast

Damp conditions were predicted to continue along large portions of Queensland's east this coming days as a weather pattern continued to pull in damp air against the coast.

The following day was expected to become the heaviest precipitation period, with ongoing severe weather risk predicted across various areas of both states.

Medical Alert

Health officials cautioned that there was an greater possibility of weather-related respiratory issues across the northern rural areas, specifically given the existing atmospheric conditions.

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