Approximately twenty-five thousand households in south-east Queensland were left experiencing outages on Monday morning after severe thunderstorms swept through the state, producing powerful gusts topping 109 kilometers per hour.
Homeowners witnessed giant hailstones reaching sizes of seven centimeters in some areas. Weather authorities announced that multiple regions across the state had been hit with significant hail.
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Utility workers were focused on reestablishing electricity service throughout the affected regions, with nearly 70 crews deployed to handle the numerous electricity disruptions.
At the same time, around 1,000 energy customers in Victoria also faced power outages after Melbourne saw its most precipitation in 18 months.
Emergency response teams received over five hundred emergency reports across the region, primarily for property damage but also for downed trees and flooding.
At one point on yesterday, over twenty-eight thousand energy customers in Victoria were experiencing outages.
Damp conditions were forecast to persist along significant areas of the state's eastern regions this week as a low-pressure trough continued to draw in moisture against the coastal areas.
The following day was predicted as the most rainy day, with persistent severe weather risk expected across multiple regions of both regions.
Public health experts alerted that there was an greater possibility of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the countryside regions, especially given the existing atmospheric conditions.
This warning comes after past events where analogous circumstances led to major medical consequences in the state.
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