Nearly twenty-five thousand residences in Queensland's southeast found themselves experiencing outages on Monday morning after severe thunderstorms passed over the state, generating powerful gusts hitting over 100 km/h.
Homeowners reported large ice chunks measuring up to 7cm in some areas. The Bureau of Meteorology announced that different parts across the state had been affected by significant hail.
Today's weather system has heavily impacted our infrastructure!
Response teams were focused on reestablishing energy supply throughout the affected regions, with nearly 70 crews working to manage the widespread outages.
Simultaneously, around 1,000 households in the southern state also encountered energy failures after the capital city saw its wettest day in over 500 days.
Emergency response teams responded to 598 emergency reports across the region, primarily for building damage but also for fallen timber and flooding.
During the peak on the previous day, over 28,000 electricity consumers in Victoria were without power.
Damp conditions were predicted to continue along much of eastern Queensland this next several days as a low-pressure trough continued to draw in moisture against the shoreline.
Tomorrow was predicted as the heaviest precipitation period, with ongoing storm activity anticipated across various areas of both states.
Medical authorities cautioned that there was an higher risk of thunderstorm-induced asthma across the state's northern country region, especially given the current weather patterns.
This caution comes after past events where similar conditions led to major medical consequences in the area.
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