A statement issued on Monday by WSI Corporation informs that the
temperature has been forecasted to be colder than normal across most of
the U. S. in the three-month period from January through March.

WSI
informed that the temperatures will average below normal in February
and March, but will be above normal in January in the U. S. Northeast,
the world's largest heating oil market.

WSI forecaster Todd
Crawford reported, "Most of the East should be quite mild in January,
before the pattern shifts again in February and March to allow for
below-normal temperatures to return to the Northeast."

The
Northeast will experience greater temperature fluctuations than other
regions, although February and March are expected to be colder than
normal on average.

WSI said, "Much of the rest of the United
States, including the big Midwest residential natural gas market, will
be unusually cold from January through March."

Crawford added,
"Current oceanic and atmospheric indicators are quite similar to those
observed during the winters of the early 1960s, when cold western U. S.
winters were commonplace."

The only region that will have
consistently warmer-than-normal temperatures from January through March
would be the U. S. Southeast.