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