With early winter cold still failing to show up meaningfully in the latest forecasts, natural gas futures continued to sell off in early trading Tuesday. The December Nymex contract was down 11.6 cents to $3.148/MMBtu at around 8:33 a.m. ET.

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The December contract plummeted 25.1 cents on Monday amid expectations for mild November temperatures and signs of production strength. 

The market will also have to navigate through the current week without the usual guidance on balances provided by the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) weekly natural gas storage report. That report will be delayed by one week, with two weeks of storage data set to release on Nov. 16.

“The market volatility seen in recent weeks has persisted, as the lack of available storage data this...