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Nearly 25,000 homes in south-east Queensland were left lacking electricity on Monday's dawn after powerful weather events passed over the region, producing wind gusts hitting 109 kilometers per hour.
Homeowners reported substantial frozen pellets measuring up to 7cm in some areas. The Bureau of Meteorology verified that various areas across the state had been impacted by large hailstones.
The recent thunderstorm has absolutely smashed our network!
Emergency crews were working to restore energy supply throughout the damaged zones, with approximately seventy teams working to address the widespread outages.
At the same time, nearly 1,000 residents in Victoria also encountered power outages after the capital city experienced its wettest day in a year and a half.
Rescue organizations responded to over five hundred calls for help across the region, mostly for property damage but also for collapsed vegetation and flooding.
At one point on yesterday, over 28k power users in the state were experiencing outages.
Humid circumstances were expected to linger along significant areas of the state's eastern regions this week as a atmospheric system continued to draw in moisture against the coastal areas.
The following day was expected to become the heaviest precipitation period, with persistent storm activity predicted across various areas of both states.
Public health experts cautioned that there was an greater possibility of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the state's northern country region, especially given the existing atmospheric conditions.
This warning comes after past events where comparable situations led to substantial respiratory problems in the state.
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Larry Davis
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Larry Davis
Larry Davis
Larry Davis