With mild weather continuing unabated across large swaths of the United States during the Jan. 12-17 period, natural gas forward prices tumbled, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

The largest price declines were seen on the West Coast, where a much needed break from the torrential downpours was set to occur. AccuWeather said the pause in major rain and mountain snow events should last through the end of January.

While storms may continue to roll across the northern Pacific in the coming weeks, a zone of high pressure is forecast to build at most levels of the atmosphere along the U.S. West Coast. This setup could force the storms to swing to the north and away from tropical moisture before plunging southward over the interior Southwest, rather than along the California...