Fake Spring? Cold Keeps Heating Demand Around Through April

May natural gas prices settled down just a few ticks on the day as heavy selling early was met with buying off the $2.65 support level.

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Prices recovered the most at the front of the strip, with later contracts generally lagging.

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The result was a rather significant move upwards in K/M today, indicative of the role of significant heating demand expectations through April in driving some of the day's price action.

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Over the weekend we saw even further GWDD additions to our 15-day forecast, which seemed to help firm up support. Our Morning Update showed this with GWDDs significantly above average expected on aggregate.

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The afternoon Climate Prediction Center 6-10 Day forecast showed some of these colder trends too.

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Yet in our Morning Update we saw enough other bearish signs that we alerted our clients we had a slightly bearish sentiment even with these weather forecasts, calling for a test of $2.65.

Cold looks like it could linger through the balance of April as well, with yesterday's runs of the CFSv2 weather model still showing a colder bias through Week 3 (though the weekly model is notoriously volatile).

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Thus though it may be April, we continue to see weather mattering, and it remains one of the many catalysts that we track constantly for subscribers.

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