Natural Gas Price Today at 2:00 PM ET, Dec. 18, 2025: NYMEX Slips Below $4 After EIA Storage Draw, Warm Forecasts and LNG Crosscurrents
NEW YORK/LONDON — Natural gas traders are ending the week’s mid-December session with a familiar tug-of-war: a winter-sized storage withdrawal and near-record LNG feedgas demand on one side, and softer near-term weather forecasts plus a still-ample U.S. storage cushion on the other. By early afternoon on Thursday, December 18, natural gas prices had swung sharply from the morning’s highs and slipped back under the psychologically important $4.00 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) level—highlighting how quickly the market is repricing every update to weather models and export flows. Investing.com+2TradingView+2 Natural gas price today at 2:00 PM ET Around early afternoon