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Around twenty-five thousand homes in southeastern Queensland found themselves experiencing outages on Monday's dawn after intense storm systems impacted the state, producing wind gusts hitting 109 kilometers per hour.

Massive Frozen Precipitation and Extensive Damage

Residents observed substantial frozen pellets measuring up to 7 centimeters in some areas. Weather authorities confirmed that multiple regions across Queensland had been affected by large hailstones.

Today's weather system has severely damaged our network!

Utility workers were focused on reestablishing energy supply throughout the impacted areas, with dozens of response units activated to manage the numerous electricity disruptions.

Southern State's Climate Difficulties

Meanwhile, around 1,000 residents in the southern state also faced electricity disruptions after Melbourne experienced its most precipitation in over 500 days.

State Emergency Services responded to 598 calls for help across the state, mainly for structural issues but also for collapsed vegetation and flooding.

Hardest Hit Regions

• The Werribee area - recorded considerable destruction
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - various emergency calls
• Wyndham - over 175 help reports

At the height on yesterday, in excess of twenty-eight thousand energy customers in the state were without power.

Climate Outlook

Moist weather were forecast to persist along significant areas of eastern Queensland this week as a atmospheric system continued to attract humidity against the coast.

Tuesday was predicted as the most rainy day, with persistent severe weather risk expected across various areas of both states.

Medical Alert

Public health experts cautioned that there was an increased chance of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the northern rural areas, especially given the current weather patterns.

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