Keep trying. Intellicast.com is showing it down to 24 in Chicago on Wednesday. The normal low is 21.7. Checking Bismark, ND it does get down to -2 on Tuesday. Hm, I checked that about 5 mins. ago and went back to make sure which day that was on and it's been updated. Now only 3 on Tuesday. Normally it gets down to 6.6. I've found that 5 days out the actual temps can vary a good bit from the forecasts.
Looking at Minneapolis, 14 on Tuesday, 13 on Wednesday. Totally normal. By next Friday it will be about 10-15 degs above the normal averages. One or two days won't make much of a difference. Especially when the days before and after are running above the averages.
Checking Albany, NY again, it's only getting to 59 instead of the 61 they had earlier for next Tuesday. I guess they won't need to get the sun tan lotion out. <g> And looking at the 10 day, everyday is normal to 10-15 above normal. Probably get a more accurate forecast by Sunday for next week.
See what the Weather Channel says. Here's a Dec. forecast, http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/tendayforecastusnational/index_large.html No wonder I never go to this website, how should I know what zip codes around the country are. Do I look like the mail man. Ok, they're showing for Chicago, (um, actually east Chicago, Indiana where ever that is) coldest next week is 26 on Wednesday. Of course Sunday night it's going to be 45. So way above normal to a few days later slightly above normal at night.
Nobody else is seeing what AccuWeather is seeing. And even if AccuWeather is correct, it's confined to a few areas and lasts at most two days and then goes back to above normal temps. Going to be interesting now to see what actually happens.
Check this out, http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/ngs/ngs.html. They revised the Nov. 19 numbers upward so instead of a drop of -49bcf it was only -17bcf. We're running 11.2% above 5 yr averages. We would need some serious cold to use that up. And for those out West worrying about those "record" lows, NG supplies are running 15.6% above 5 yr averages. Producing states are 18.8% and East is a measly 6.7%. We're still outside the 5 yr channel.
Working Gas in Underground Storage Compared with 5-Year Range