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Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Northeast may have the coldest winter in a decade because of a weak El Nino, a warming current in the Pacific Ocean, according to Matt Rogers, a forecaster at Commodity Weather Group.

“Weak El Ninos are notorious for cold and snowy weather on the Eastern seaboard,” Rogers said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Washington. “About 70 percent to 75 percent of the time a weak El Nino will deliver the goods in terms of above-normal heating demand and cold weather. It’s pretty good odds.”

Warming in the Pacific often means fewer Atlantic hurricanes and higher temperatures in the U.S. Northeast during January, February and March, according to the National Weather Service. El Nino occurs every two to five years, on average, and lasts about 12 months, according to the service.

Hedge-fund managers and other large speculators increased their net-long positions, or bets prices will rise, in New York heating oil futures in the week ended Sep. 22, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data Sept. 25.

“It could be one of the coldest winters, or the coldest, winter of the decade,” Rogers said.

great, and i have oil heat.......

3dR3 Wrote:great, and i have oil heat.......

Welcome to home ownership.

I told the old lady to stock up on her sweatshirts.

"i'm freezing"

-put more clothes on

I went to bed last night and it was 66 degrees in the house, I figured it'd maybe drop a degree or two overnight. I woke up and it was 57 in the house...I had to turn the furnace on. It's been frosty outside the last few mornings, tonight it's going to be a hard freeze with a chance of flurries.

We got screwed out of Summer and now Fall lasted two weeks.

oh....... did you get "the thing" out of the furnace before tuning it on?

3dR3 Wrote:oh....... did you get "the thing" out of the furnace before tuning it on?

Yeah, it wasn't easy though. Remind me to never do that again.

Let me be the first to post "It is fuckin' snowing" I will be repeating this post for the next 5 or so months with the word "again" added.

That's crazy you have snow already. We've had flurries but nothing major.

I couldn't believe it when I saw snow in Foxboro yesterday during the Pats highlights.