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Nearly twenty-five thousand homes in southeastern Queensland were left without power on Monday morning after severe thunderstorms impacted the area, generating powerful gusts reaching over 100 km/h.

Large Frozen Precipitation and Extensive Damage

Residents witnessed large ice chunks measuring up to 7cm in some areas. Weather authorities verified that various areas across Queensland had been impacted by significant hail.

Today's weather system has severely damaged our power system!

Response teams were attempting to repair electricity service throughout the affected regions, with dozens of response units working to handle the extensive power failures.

Southern State's Climate Difficulties

Simultaneously, around 1,000 energy customers in the southern state also encountered electricity disruptions after the metropolitan area recorded its most precipitation in a year and a half.

State Emergency Services handled nearly 600 emergency reports across the region, mostly for property damage but also for downed trees and flooding.

Hardest Hit Areas

• Werribee region - recorded substantial weather impact
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - various emergency calls
• Wyndham area - 179 help reports

At one point on yesterday, more than 28,000 energy customers in the state were without power.

Meteorological Predictions

Moist weather were predicted to continue along significant areas of eastern Queensland this week as a atmospheric system continued to attract humidity against the shoreline.

Tomorrow was expected to become the wettest day, with continued storm activity anticipated across multiple regions of both regions.

Safety Concern

Public health experts cautioned that there was an greater possibility of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the northern rural areas, particularly given the current weather patterns.

This warning comes after historical occurrences where comparable situations led to substantial respiratory problems in the state.