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Around twenty-five thousand homes in Queensland's southeast found themselves lacking electricity on Monday's dawn after severe thunderstorms passed over the region, bringing wind gusts hitting 109 kilometers per hour.

Substantial Ice Stones and Widespread Impact

Homeowners observed large ice chunks as large as 7 centimeters in certain regions. The Bureau of Meteorology announced that various areas across the state had been affected by substantial ice precipitation.

The recent thunderstorm has severely damaged our network!

Utility workers were focused on reestablishing power throughout the damaged zones, with approximately seventy teams working to handle the widespread outages.

Victorian Weather Woes

Simultaneously, around one thousand households in Victoria also experienced power outages after Melbourne saw its most precipitation in a year and a half.

Rescue organizations handled 598 requests for assistance across the state, mostly for structural issues but also for collapsed vegetation and flooding.

Hardest Hit Locations

• The Werribee area - experienced substantial storm damage
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - multiple emergency calls
• Wyndham - nearly 180 help reports

At one point on yesterday, more than twenty-eight thousand electricity consumers in the state were lacking electricity.

Weather Forecast

Humid circumstances were forecast to persist along much of eastern Queensland this next several days as a atmospheric system continued to pull in damp air against the coast.

Tuesday was predicted as the wettest day, with persistent thunderstorm potential predicted across different parts of both regions.

Safety Concern

Health officials warned that there was an greater possibility of weather-related respiratory issues across the countryside regions, specifically given the ongoing climate situation.

This warning comes after previous incidents where similar conditions led to significant health impacts in the state.