'Dangerous' storm warning issued for south-east Queensland as heavy Christmas weather begins

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A storm cell stretching from the Darling Downs to northern New South Wales is bringing heavy rain, with the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) warning that locally destructive winds and giant hail is also possible.

It is the first of what could be a series of storms forecast to affect eastern Australia until Boxing Day.

BOM senior meteorologist Felim Hanniffy said south-east Queensland would receive the worst of the weather today.

"Indeed for Brisbane and south-east Queensland we're expecting a very showery and stormy period of weather to come and really continuing right way through Christmas Day and Boxing Day as well," he said.

By 11:45am, more than 24,000 properties had lost power in southern Brisbane and Logan.

Around the same time, the BOM updated its storm warning to include people in Redland City, Brisbane City and parts of Logan, Somerset, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay and Ipswich council areas.

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Lots of heavy rain and wind here but luckily no hail. How did everyone else do?
- The same, lots of rain with no hail. Didn't even get much thunder and lightning.
- Some crazy hail for me, was a good 10 minutes of hammering before a torrent of water
- Same my way, tonne of rain wind and a crazy temperature drop!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A storm cell stretching from the Darling Downs to northern New South Wales is bringing heavy rain, with the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) warning that locally destructive winds and giant hail is also possible.
It is the first of what could be a series of storms forecast to affect eastern Australia until Boxing Day.
BOM senior meteorologist Felim Hanniffy said south-east Queensland would receive the worst of the weather today.
"Indeed for Brisbane and south-east Queensland we're expecting a very showery and stormy period of weather to come and really continuing right way through Christmas Day and Boxing Day as well," he said.
By 11:45am, more than 24,000 properties had lost power in southern Brisbane and Logan.
Around the same time, the BOM updated its storm warning to include people in Redland City, Brisbane City and parts of Logan, Somerset, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay and Ipswich council areas.
The original article contains 171 words, the summary contains 149 words. Saved 13%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!