The industry is keeping a wary eye on the weather is thoughts turn to next year's market.Credible forecasters predict a colder than average winter,which threatens to test middle distillate supplies to the limit after the massive disruption to refinery output in the US caused by hurricanes.Snow came early in the US last week,while Europe basked in record-high autumn temperatures.The forecasters were right earlier this year when they said the hurricane season would be the worst on record (AGM,8 August,p5).
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