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Around twenty-five thousand homes in south-east Queensland were left lacking electricity on Monday's dawn after severe thunderstorms swept through the state, producing wind gusts reaching 109km/h.

Substantial Frozen Precipitation and Extensive Damage

Homeowners reported giant hailstones reaching sizes of 7 centimeters in some areas. The Bureau of Meteorology announced that different parts across Queensland had been impacted by substantial ice precipitation.

Today's weather system has heavily impacted our infrastructure!

Utility workers were working to restore electricity service throughout the impacted areas, with dozens of response units deployed to handle the numerous electricity disruptions.

Victorian Weather Woes

Simultaneously, approximately one thousand residents in Victoria also encountered energy failures after the metropolitan area recorded its wettest day in over 500 days.

Emergency response teams handled 598 requests for assistance across the state, mostly for property damage but also for collapsed vegetation and water accumulation.

Hardest Hit Areas

• Werribee - recorded significant destruction
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - numerous rescue reports
• Wyndham region - 179 calls for assistance

At the height on the previous day, more than twenty-eight thousand energy customers in Victoria were experiencing outages.

Meteorological Predictions

Damp conditions were forecast to persist along large portions of the state's eastern regions this next several days as a atmospheric system continued to pull in damp air against the coastal areas.

Tomorrow was predicted as the wettest day, with continued severe weather risk anticipated across different parts of both areas.

Safety Concern

Medical authorities cautioned that there was an higher risk of thunderstorm-induced asthma across the countryside regions, especially given the existing atmospheric conditions.

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