Gas population weight HDD anomaly forecasts certainly reveal the bold bias across the North, East and into the South into early February followed by a shift of the cold (and attendant heating demand) westward into the middle third of February.

Sings that La Nina may be breaking down as a Kelvin Wave emerges rapidly and shifts east in the equatorial Pacific Ocean subsurface to near 140W. If this feature reaches the northwest coast of South AMerica in a couple weeks, La Nina will continue to decay as observed last week.