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The eastern United States, which has been buffeted by colder-than-normal temperatures and a series of snowstorms this winter, will remain under the thumb of colder-than-normal weather for the next three months, while the West can expect warmer-than-normal temperatures through May, according to the latest seasonal forecast from Andover, MA-based WSI Corp.

The eastern United States, which has been buffeted by colder-than-normal temperatures and a series of snowstorms this winter, will remain under the thumb of colder-than-normal weather for the next three months, while the West can expect warmer-than-normal temperatures through May, according to the latest seasonal forecast from Andover, MA-based WSI Corp.

The eastern United States, which has been buffeted by colder-than-normal temperatures and a series of snowstorms this winter, will remain under the thumb of colder-than-normal weather for the next three months, while the West can expect warmer-than-normal temperatures through May, according to the latest seasonal forecast from Andover, MA-based WSI Corp.

Turning its back on “group think” evidenced in a recent series of winter weather forecasts, WxRisk.com last week said it expects the Midwest — not the East — to experience the coldest temperatures relative to normal this winter.

Turning its back on “group think” evidenced in a recent series of winter weather forecasts, WxRisk.com on Monday said it expects the Midwest — not the East — to experience the coldest temperatures relative to normal this winter.

Prices resumed a mostly moderate climb Monday after having last week’s four-day series of spikes interrupted Friday. Although cold weather was easing a bit after setting date-specific records for low temperatures over the weekend, there was still quite a bit of chill in northern forecasts to keep heating load fairly strong.

Arizona regulators on Wednesday began a series of evidentiary hearings on separate general rate increase proposals from the state’s largest and smallest investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities, respectively. Final action from the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) on both cases is expected later this year, a Phoenix-based ACC spokesperson told NGI.

A series of earthquakes along the central Gulf of California coast of Baja California Monday through Wednesday were felt widely in Mexico and the western United States, but San Diego-based Sempra Energy reported that the quakes had no impact on its Costa Azul liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal or connecting transmission pipelines, which cut across the northern-most stretch of North Baja.

In the first of a series of hearings this month and in August, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will focus on whether federal speculative limits should be set by the agency on all “commodities of finite supply,” particularly energy commodities such as crude oil, natural gas, heating oil and gasoline, Chairman Gary Gensler said.