Freeze in eastern U.S. to ease next week: forecasters
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The cold snap gripping the eastern United States should ease next week, ushering in warmer temperatures into March for the world's top energy consumer, meteorologists forecast Thursday.
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Cold weather will swing into the East Coast of the United States by the weekend, ending a stretch of above-normal temperatures in the world's biggest heating oil market that has curbed energy demand, private forecaster AccuWeather said on Monday.
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Oil prices eased on Friday as swelling  crude stockpiles countered worries over a cold snap in the U.S.  Northeast that is expected to keep furnaces fired up until the  middle of next week.
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Winter will be warmer than normal in  the U.S. Western and Plains states and colder than usual in the  Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, but the return of El Nino  is making it hard for forecasters to hazard a guess for much of  the country, meteorologists said on Wednesday.
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Mild weather was expected to linger in most of the United States until at least early January, continuing a prolonged spell of balmy conditions that has cut deeply into heating demand, government and private forecasters said on Tuesday.
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Oil prices held steady near 7-week lows  on Friday on forecasts for colder-than-normal weather in the  U.S. Northeast.
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Crude oil futures are headed for their biggest weekly gain in 21 months on speculation cold weather may boost demand in the US Northeast, where 80 percent of the country&#39;s heating oil is used.
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The weather will turn milder through  the weekend in the central and eastern United States, thawing  out the regions after the first arctic blast swept through them  last week, according to weather forecasters.
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After a brief warming, the U.S.  Northeast and Midwest will get another frosty spell and a  possible major storm next week that will bolster demand for  heating fuels, forecasters said Thursday.
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Bitter cold gripped most of the United States on Monday, with temperatures dipping below normal from coast to coast.
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The U.S. Midwest should receive up to  a foot of snow by Thursday, but above-normal temperatures in  the normally fuel-hungry Northeast should melt away any  accumulations there, forecasters said on Wednesday.
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The storm that pounded the Midwest over the weekend brought relatively light snow to the Northeast on Monday, delaying some commuters but sparing the region a repeat of the Valentine's Day ice storm that brought airline flights to a standstill.
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By ED CULLEN  I stood looking at volunteer zinnias in the rain this morning thinking, "So long, summer children. Nice try." There are hard freezes predicted tonight and tomorrow night with a couple of nights of lows in the mid-30s thrown in.
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Warmer than normal temperatures are  forecast to blanket the western United States and Plains states  this winter, but it is unclear whether the Northeast and  Midwest will face warmer, colder or normal winter weather, U.S.  government forecasters said on Wednesday.
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A cold front moving toward the eastern seaboard was expected to bring rain to the Appalachians on Thursday before it dumps heavy rain in New England and the mid-Atlantic states. Rain is also forecast for the Southeast.
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Snow was forecast for large parts of the Mid-Atlantic region and Northeast on Wednesday, with as much as 2 feet or more possible in some areas of the northern Mid-Atlantic and New England.
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U.S. retailers were hopeful on Monday that a dusting of snow on the East Coast would put consumers in the Christmas shopping mood after what has so far been a ho-hum holiday sales season.