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The American services of meteorology envisage one lenient winter 2006/07 on the whole of the United States with temperatures above the normal thanks to the hot current El Nino in the Pacific, according to forecasts' made public Tuesday. These forecasts could involve a less great consumption of fuel and natural gas. However the winter will be colder than the precedent, which was the hotter fifth in the United States. “The reinforcement in the course of the El Nino current in the tropical zone of the Pacific Ocean should persist during all the winter with the possibility that it becomes more intense in the next months”, explains the oceanic and atmospheric administration American (NOAA). “The intensification of El Nino will have an influence on the localization and the force of the hot current above the Pacific Ocean what will affect precipitations and the temperatures in the whole of the United States”, Michael Halpert, the principal meteorologist of the center of forecasts of the climate indicated, with the NOAA. “This probably will involve less cold temperatures in the country than during the majority of the winters during which the El Nino current does not appear”, it added in an official statement posted on Internet site of the NOAA. However, the next winter will be colder than the precedent with on average from 5 to 10% of more than days of heating than into 2005/06. Last winter was the hotter fifth recorded in the United States with an average temperature of 2,4 degrees Celsius. Hottest was that of 1999/2000 with an average temperature of 2,8 degrees.