Sentences with phrase «recent hurricanes likely»

Although a tightening labor market has driven up prices in some segments, such as single - family homes, it's «not enough to overcome downward pressure from other factors,» says Zentner, who adds that recent hurricanes likely won't have a lasting impact on national prices either.

Not exact matches

«Finding skilled workers remains a challenge for this industry, and it's likely to remain a challenge in the areas affected by the recent hurricanes,» said Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber.

Some data releases have clearly been skewed by the recent major hurricanes, but we feel any negative impact on the economy is likely to be transient and outweighed by demand arising from reconstruction.

Both Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have been devastated by recent hurricanes, likely making those areas a top priority for him as he takes the new post.

Hurricane Irma, which struck Florida in early September, is more likely to result in a wave of early stage delinquencies and defaults than Hurricane Harvey, which hit the Houston, Texas area in late August, recent research from Black Knight shows.

In the coming weeks, retailers in various parts of the United States and Puerto Rico are likely to encounter customers with pets that are struggling to cope following the recent hurricanes.

Hurricanes are likely to become fewer in number, but fiercer in nature according to two recent studies assessing the impact of climate change on hurricane formation.

The researchers noted how many extreme weather events had occurred in a respondent's region in the recent past, and examined whether such events affected opinions on relevant mitigation policies (such as whether they were more likely to support coastal building restrictions after a hurricane).

The observed North Atlantic sulfate aerosol optical depth has not increased (but shows a modest decline) over this period, suggesting the decline of the Atlantic major hurricane frequency during 2005 — 2015 is not likely due to recent changes in anthropogenic sulfate aerosols.

In a recent press release, the Union of Concerned scientists stated that global warming was likely to make the damage from hurricanes worse on three levels.

We're being hit by more and more multi-billion dollar climate & weather disasters like hurricane Sandy, the recent Great Plains heat waves and (most likely) ongoing «unprecedented» flooding in Colorado — disasters pushed beyond their natural variability by the changing conditions of our new climate.

And while that could, in part, be due to less cool freshwater entering the Gulf from the Mississippi River, National Hurricane Center meteorologist Eric Blake said it's more likely the result of relentless high temperatures in recent weeks along Louisiana's Gulf Coast.

Based on recent research, Willoughby said, it is likely that «the strongest hurricanes will get stronger, because the oceanic heat source is stronger, but because of increased shear of the surrounding winds, the numbers will go down, and the locus of activity in the Atlantic is more likely to move to the open Atlantic from the Gulf [of Mexico].»

Still, in recent years, costly flooding disasters, including Hurricane Sandy, have left the program $ 25 billion in debt, a situation that will most likely worsen because of climate change and coastal overdevelopment.

Recent hurricanes and wildfires are likely to blame for an uptick in the number of homeowners who became late on their mortgage payments at the end of the year.