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Mild weather is supposed to continue across most of the northern third of the country until next week, .

If injections from April through October match last year's pace, stocks could begin the next heating season with a record 3.6 trillion cubic feet in the ground.

After a mild start to the week, temperatures in the Northeast and Midwest, key gas consuming markets, were expected to cool to below-normal later this week and next week.

Temperatures in the Northeast and Midwest were expected to remain above normal for the next 10 days.

The weather will be more seasonal over the next week but it will take much more than that to put a dent in supplies.

The US is quickly skirting the winter period without a significant supply shock -- the next few days' drop below seasonal temperatures notwithstanding.