January Nymex natural gas futures’ four-day winning streak ended Tuesday in losses driven by revised weather outlooks that erased some cooler, supportive weather from forecasts.

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The front-month contract settled at $2.492/MMBtu, off 1.1 cents day/day. February futures closed at $2.366, off 5.0 cents.

NGI’s Spot National Avg. was down 15.0 cents at $2.405. Notably, the Southeast gave back much of the previous day’s gains, while advances in the Northeast, Rocky Mountain and California regional averages prevented a larger overall retreat. 

January natural gas futures reversed early steeper losses as the market garnered some support from LNG feed gas demand that ticked up to 15.01 Bcf/d from 14.9 Bcf/d Monday, according to NGI’s U.S. LNG Export Tracker.

However, the...