The mild winter sets the sector up for a key test of underlying demand.
That, coupled with an unusually mild winter, has kept bills for home heating unusually low.
The blustery blast follows a mild winter that saw little snow and the warmest March on record.
We better hope we have a mild winter and people stay healthy - which is a big concern.
Health officials think a mild winter and early spring fostered the breeding of mosquitoes that bite infected birds.
There's no guarantee there will be a repeat of last year's mild winter.
An unusually mild winter might have also helped drive some of these sales.
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Halfway through what had been a mild winter across the Northeast, blizzard warnings were posted from parts of New Jersey to Maine.
"We have a lot, " he said, noting that demand earlier in the year was subpar because the mild winter meant few spring floods.
Michelin said the decision was taken in response to the economic situation in Europe and the mild winter, which hit demand for specialist tyres.
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The mild winter continues with some flowers and trees beginning to bloom and bud in February, which has garden experts like Greener by Design examining potential outcomes.
What I also learned (very confidentially) is that there will be little if any ice wine for sale this year because the mild winter was not helpful.
Mild winter weather in the northern U.S. is not helping.
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Local authorities said they were concerned that flooding and storm surges could wreck dunes and beaches that have been rebuilding over what so far has been a mild winter.
In addition, the U.S. has experienced an unseasonably mild winter, giving furnaces a welcome respite and their owners lower heating bills, making the higher payment at the pumps a little more palatable.
The group said that the growth rate had slowed over recent months - in part because of the mild winter - but that the more expensive brands were performing better than their counterparts.
Since the 2011 blizzard that dumped 20 inches on Chicago, the nation's third-largest city has had it pretty easy snow-wise, with a relatively mild winter last year and a slow start this year.
Some economists said mild winter weather and quirks in the government's methods for adjusting for seasonality may have pushed the jobs estimates artificially higher at the start of the year, making a drop-off inevitable.
That would be behind March of this year, when sales were an unexpectedly high 1.40 million vehicles possibly due to mild winter weather and stronger economic prospects, and May, traditionally the highest volume sales month of the year, at 1.33 million.
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What I have left out is the cruel fact that the BMW 650i convertible came to me one of the cold, chilly weeks of this mild winter, and I was hesitant to drop the top on days of inclement weather.
The state-owned forecaster has recently been criticised for predicting it would be a "mild" winter ahead of the most severe freeze for 30 years.
After unusually mild temperatures this winter in Paris, it has been freezing the last few weeks.
Further bearishness for natural gas comes from a mild start to winter in key demand regions, specifically the U.S. Midwest and the Northeast.
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Mild temperatures are nice in winter, but snow and brisk sunny weather puts people in the holiday spirit.
Such averages such as the reports that the winter was especially mild in the U.S. this past year obscure variations during the day and throughout the time period in question.
Some producers have released their reserves and if Winter 2012 is as mild as the last one, those reserves soon will be exhausted.
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