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Approximately 25,000 households in Queensland's southeast were left without power on the start of the week after powerful weather events passed over the state, generating strong winds topping 109 kilometers per hour.

Large Frozen Precipitation and Extensive Destruction

Homeowners reported giant hailstones as large as 7 centimeters in particular locations. The Bureau of Meteorology announced that multiple regions across the state had been hit with significant hail.

Today's weather system has heavily impacted our infrastructure!

Utility workers were focused on reestablishing electricity service throughout the affected regions, with dozens of response units activated to manage the widespread outages.

Victoria's Weather Woes

Simultaneously, around one thousand residents in Victoria also faced electricity disruptions after Melbourne experienced its wettest day in over 500 days.

Emergency response teams handled over five hundred emergency reports across the region, mainly for structural issues but also for fallen timber and flooding.

Most Impacted Areas

• The Werribee area - recorded significant storm damage
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - various emergency calls
• Wyndham region - 179 emergency requests

At one point on Sunday, more than twenty-eight thousand power users in the state were experiencing outages.

Weather Forecast

Moist weather were expected to linger along large portions of the state's eastern regions this next several days as a atmospheric system continued to attract humidity against the coastal areas.

Tomorrow was expected to become the most rainy day, with continued storm activity expected across various areas of both regions.

Safety Concern

Medical authorities cautioned that there was an greater possibility of weather-related respiratory issues across the state's northern country region, particularly given the current weather patterns.

This alert comes after past events where analogous circumstances led to major medical consequences in the region.