WASHINGTON - Despite early predictions of higher heating bills, warmer than normal weather has kept natural gas prices from escalating so far this heating season.
Heating degree-days were approximately 11 percent below normal in October, according to the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Energy Information Agency (EIA), and the first week in November brought unseasonably warm weather to the Midwest and Northeast. The warmer temperatures have kept demand for natural gas low and supplies higher than average.