Snow-covered homes during a Cincinnati-area winter storm in January 2025. Joshua A. Bickel/AP Natural-gas prices have jumped 63% this week in response to forecasts calling for some of the coldest, snowiest weather in years to freeze the country from the West Texas desert to the Great Lakes.

A town snowplow clears an intersection in Ashburnham, Mass. , on Sunday. Rick Cinclair / USA Today Network Natural gas prices skyrocketed Tuesday as half of the country braces for a huge winter storm projected to hit this weekend.