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Despite a flat futures market Wednesday and a somewhat bearish winter weather forecast by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (see related story), cash prices were generally up 10-60 cents, aside from a few flat locations in the Northeast and Gulf Coast and a massive decline at Northwest South of Green River.

As tropical storms continue to pop up in the Atlantic, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Monday that if the final storm name of the season — Wilma — is used up, the Greek alphabet will then kick in with Alpha, Beta, Gamma and so forth.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) did everything it could during the lead-up to Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on Aug. 29, but the agency vowed that it continues to look for more precise methods on forecasting and landfall predictions.

FERC on Thursday called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to expedite their review of a $333 million project to replace aging natural gas delivery capacity on Williams’ Northwest Pipeline in western Washington State.

As if the natural gas market needed more bullish indicators, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last week predicted an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season. The NOAA seasonal hurricane outlook calls for 12 to 15 tropical storms, with six to eight systems becoming hurricanes, and two to four of those major hurricanes.

As if the natural gas market needed more bullish indicators, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Monday predicted and above-normal Atlantic hurricane season. The NOAA seasonal hurricane outlook calls for 12 to 15 tropical storms, with six to eight systems becoming hurricanes, and two to four of those major hurricanes.

Without an El Nino or La Nina in place this spring, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasters expect “a typical level of springtime variability in temperature and precipitation to occur in many areas of the nation,” said NOAA Administrator Conrad C. Lautenbacher. However, the summer is expected to bring some above normal temperatures across the southern third of the nation.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) resumed the appeal process and reopened the comment period on the Islander East project earlier this month. The public comment period will extend to Nov. 20 and a public hearing on the project will be scheduled this fall in Connecticut, NOAA said in a Federal Register notice. Meanwhile, on Aug. 8, NOAA officially closed the record on the Millennium Pipeline appeal, leaving 90 days for it to make a final decision on the project.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) resumed the appeal process and reopened the comment period on the Islander East project earlier this month. The public comment period will extend to Nov. 20 and a public hearing on the project will be scheduled this fall in Connecticut, NOAA said in a Federal Register notice. Meanwhile, on Aug. 8, NOAA officially closed the record on the Millennium Pipeline appeal, leaving 90 days for it to make a final decision on the project.