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Around twenty-five thousand homes in Queensland's southeast found themselves experiencing outages on Monday morning after severe thunderstorms swept through the state, bringing strong winds topping over 100 km/h.

Massive Frozen Precipitation and Widespread Destruction

Homeowners witnessed large ice chunks measuring up to 7 centimeters in some areas. Meteorological experts confirmed that various areas across the state had been hit with substantial ice precipitation.

Today's weather system has absolutely smashed our power system!

Response teams were focused on reestablishing power throughout the affected regions, with dozens of response units activated to manage the numerous electricity disruptions.

Victorian Climate Difficulties

Simultaneously, around 1,000 households in Victoria also faced energy failures after Melbourne recorded its most precipitation in a year and a half.

State Emergency Services responded to nearly 600 requests for assistance across the area, primarily for structural issues but also for fallen timber and water accumulation.

Hardest Hit Regions

• Werribee region - experienced substantial destruction
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - various assistance requests
• Wyndham area - 179 help reports

At the height on Sunday, over 28,000 power users in the state were experiencing outages.

Weather Forecast

Moist weather were expected to linger along much of the state's eastern regions this week as a low-pressure trough continued to draw in moisture against the coast.

Tuesday was expected to become the wettest day, with persistent severe weather risk anticipated across various areas of both states.

Safety Concern

Health officials warned that there was an greater possibility of weather-related respiratory issues across the countryside regions, specifically given the existing atmospheric conditions.

This alert comes after historical occurrences where analogous circumstances led to significant health impacts in the area.