of historical interruptions for a historical period establishing model equations for the average value of the weather variables combining the model equations for each of the weather variables into a composite model and performing a regression analysis using the composite model to establish interruption prediction values a computer program product for enabling said method and a computer system adapted to carry out said method are also included application_number US 201113080360 A description in the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof and within which are shown by way of illustration specific embodiments by which the invention may be practiced it is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the invention power interruption data was provided by a utility company and weather data from the national climatic data center ncdc was used for creation and testing of the present invention the ncdc weather data is reported by 886 automated surface observation stations asoss located at airports around the country by modeling the daily common weather data received from the ncdc the total daily number of interruptions can be consistently stochastically predicted with.