Amid colder weekend weather trends and production impacts from another tropical cyclone tracking toward the Gulf of Mexico, natural gas futures gained in early trading Monday. The November Nymex contract was up 3.5 cents to $3.006/MMBtu at around 8:45 a.m. ET.

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An already active hurricane season for the Gulf Coast could soon get even worse, as the region finds itself in the potential path of yet another named storm. 

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has started tracking Tropical Storm Zeta, which was about 175 miles southeast of Cozumel, Mexico, as of 8 a.m. ET Monday. 

“On the forecast track, the center of Zeta will move near or over the northern Yucatan Peninsula later today or tonight, move over the southern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, and approach the northern Gulf...