GasCastWhat's new
New features, improvements and fixes, newest first.
Supply & demand and daily LNG feedgas
- NEWLNG feedgas (Pro): gas scheduled into US LNG export terminals each day, from the pipelines' public postings, with which terminals moved and a comparison with last year where history exists.
- NEWSupply & demand (Pro): daily power burn vs. last year, plus monthly dry production, LNG and pipeline exports, demand by sector and the supply/demand balance, with EIA's forecast for the months ahead.
- BETTERTimes in the status bar now show your time zone, so the EIA report time is never confused with Eastern time.
- BETTERCharts now share the same clean axis style across the app.
Forecast evolution, weather patterns, tropics and more
- NEWForecast evolution (Pro): a grid of every forecast day across the last runs, colored by whether each day got colder or warmer than the run before.
- NEWWeather patterns (Pro): NOAA's 2-week forecasts of the AO, NAO and PNA, the patterns that steer cold air into the US.
- NEWSimilar past seasons (Pro): the seasons since 1981 whose recent weather looked most like this one, and what came next.
- NEWTropics: active storms from the National Hurricane Center, flagged when they're in or near the Gulf.
- NEWMy watchlist: pin the regions and cities you care about to the top of Today and Desk view.
Easier to read, easier to trust
- NEWA status bar at the top of the app shows when each data source last updated and counts down to the next GFS run, ECMWF run and EIA storage report.
- NEWHover any chart to see the exact numbers for that day or run.
- NEWSmall i buttons explain terms like HDD, CDD, Bcf and the 5-year average.
- NEWHow GasCast works: where every number comes from and how it's calculated.
- BETTERThe city heat map is now a full-width map with smooth color across the country, a Play button that steps through the next 14 days, region averages, and a switch between "vs normal" and actual temperature.
Corrected forecast and storage estimate
- NEWCorrected forecast (Pro): each model's recent misses are checked against NOAA's measured degree days and used to adjust its forecast. Switch between Corrected and Raw anytime.
- NEWStorage estimate (Pro): GasCast's estimate of the weekly EIA storage change before it's released, with a likely range and last week's result.
- NEWA banner shows when a new GFS or ECMWF run lands and how much it changed.
- FIXThe storage 5-year average now matches EIA's published figure exactly.
- BETTERGasCast now double-checks each day's forecast numbers against NOAA's data and flags anything that looks stale.
GasCast for the web and Windows
- NEWGasCast in your browser, installable as a Windows app with its own window and taskbar icon.
- NEWGFS vs ECMWF comparison, run-by-run changes, and a season-to-date chart against past winters.
- NEWDesk view: one full-screen page for a second monitor that refreshes itself.
- NEWWindows notifications (Pro) for big forecast shifts, with your own alert levels, plus a daily email report.
- NEWFree updates in your Discord channel.
- NEWCSV export on every table, keyboard shortcuts, and light mode.