South-east and southern Queensland residents are being warned of the possibility of more storms to come, after parts of the region were lashed by giant hail over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Baden Gilbert said showers and storms could develop over the Darling Downs on Monday afternoon, before moving east.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, multiple storm fronts moved across the state’s south, delivering giant hail of up to eight centimetres in some places, including Googa Creek, north of Toowoomba, while seven-centimetre hail struck the town of Yarraman, slightly further north.<\/p>\n
At Tamborine, hailstones measuring up to five centimetres were seen, while seven-centimetre hail was reported east of Kingaroy.<\/p>\n
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Garden furniture in Clifton was damaged in Saturday’s storm. (ABC News: Dan McCray)<\/p>\n
Residents cleaning up from Saturday’s storms<\/p>\n
Sunday’s storms came just a day after giant hail of up to nine centimetres caused injuries and damaged cars and homes across the region, in what the BOM categorised as a “widespread thunderstorm outbreak”.<\/p>\n
At their peak, Saturday’s storms knocked out power to thousands of homes across the state’s south-east.<\/p>\n
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Outages had been concentrated around the Brisbane, South Burnett and Toowoomba areas.<\/p>\n
On Monday morning, 500 to 600 households remained without power around the towns of Wandoan and Taroom, about five-and-a-half-hours north-west of Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Ergon spokesperson Danny Donald said some of that power was unlikely to be restored until Tuesday because crews were finding it difficult to access some of the wet areas.<\/p>\n
He said additional choppers would be brought in on Monday to assess the damage to some of those hard-hit areas.<\/p>\n
Too early for insurance claim figures<\/p>\n
Aerial vision of the town of Esk, to Brisbane’s north-west, showed extensive damage to solar panels, cars, roofs, windows and homes.<\/p>\n