“…Weather classes may be defined synoptically, typically using emprical orthogonal functions EOFs from pressure data (Goodess and Palutikof, 1998), by indices from SLP data (e.g. Conway et al, 1996), or by applying cluster analysis (Fowler et al, 2000(Fowler et al, , 2005b or fuzzy rules (Bárdossy et al, 2002(Bárdossy et al, , 2005 to atmospheric pressure fields. Local surface variables, typically precipitation, are conditioned on daily weather patterns by deriving conditional probability distributions for observed statistics, e.g.…”