Natural Gas spiked higher in Monday trading by $.21 from a previous close of $1.54 /Mcf last Friday in light of confirming near term and seasonal weather models over the weekend. Friday saw some late-day volatility in the pricing action on indications that the models were firming to a hotter than average July. The 10+% spike in pricing and the significant trading volume in the first 3 hours of trade (161,941 vs. 122,518 10-day avg.) proved this not to be some single trader over-reaction. This consensus in the hotter forecast is supportive of the ill-timed