Fade

The mild temperatures that have dominated this winter’s weather will fade somewhat over the next three months, with cooler-than-normal temperatures moving into much of the western United States and parts of the Northeast, according to forecasters at Andover, MA-based Weather Services International (WSI).

With the current La Nina event expected to continue to fade, temperatures over the next three months will average cooler than normal across the northern United States, while above-normal temperatures will dominate the nation’s southern tier, according to Andover, MA-based WSI Corp. The fading La Nina — a cooling of ocean surface temperatures off the western coast of South America — also prompted WSI to reduce the number of tropical storms it is forecast for the 2010 hurricane season, which officially begins June 1.

With the current La Nina event expected to continue to fade, temperatures over the next three months will average cooler than normal across the northern United States, while above-normal temperatures will dominate the nation’s southern tier, according to Andover, MA-based WSI Corp.

Blizzard conditions that were still continuing in some areas but starting to fade in others, along with fluctuations in pipeline activity to handle low linepack, made for a wild mix of both large and small price declines and increases in Thursday’s market. Increases modestly outnumbered the declines.

A “strong and mature” El Nino — the warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean — persisted during January, but it is likely to fade this spring, increasing the chances for an active Atlantic hurricane season this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC).

A “strong and mature” El Nino — the warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean — persisted during January, but it is likely to fade this spring, increasing the chances for an active Atlantic hurricane season this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC).

A “strong and mature” El Nino — the warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean — persisted during January, but it is likely to fade this spring, increasing the chances for an active Atlantic hurricane season this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC).

The current El Nino event will fade in coming months, resulting in the stormiest and coldest winter weather pattern in recent years, with an area from southern New England through the Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic, including the Carolinas, being hit hardest, according to AccuWeather.com Chief Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi.

Natural gas still stands out as Alberta’s revenue star, but the provincial government expects it to fade gradually despite royalty increases as aging production naturally subsides and sales competition grows in international markets.