Sentences with phrase «weather is having on»

In related news, the New York Times has an interesting and scary article today on the effect extreme weather is having on our nation's infrastructure.

Not exact matches

Like fishing: When you're on the water there are waves and wind and weather and fish... you have to understand where all the layers are.

Sawyer is confident that his farm will move on successfully from the effects of the flooding, especially since the elevated areas of his property haven't been affected, but the weather has still been a bit of a shock to what was otherwise shaping up to be a good season.

You can tell how many intense weather systems there are because it mirrors how many users we have on our site.

Ours may need some tweaking, but for now at least, my colleagues and I have found plenty of positive things to comment on: work we're proud of, jokes about office nicknames and even a little cheerfulness about the weather («Not wearing a sweater for the first time in... I can't even remember,» one colleague posted).

Whether it's the weather or your horrifying to - do list that has got you down (or even if you really can't put your finger on the cause) we're all familiar with the experience of «being in a funk.»

Beat the crowds by visiting Yellowstone in May — the weather will be mild, and you won't have to fight through families on their summer vacations.

Having weathered its previous spat with Russia over Syria in April, the White House may now be betting on Assad simply backing down.

State officials on Monday ordered them to leave the snowy camp, which is on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land, citing harsh weather, but on Wednesday they said they would not enforce the order.

To open the app on the iPhone, you'll still have to log in, but for quick view ones like weather or your calendar, it's all right there with a swipe of a finger.

Civil and construction contractor Brierty has recovered $ 2.5 million from a weather - related insurance claim on a project with Main Roads Western Australia, but is yet to reach a resolution with regards to an outstanding $ 6.6 million dispute.

The bone - chilling winter weather that has taken over vast swaths of America's East Coast — and is expected to intensify later this week as a «bomb cyclone» descends on the Northeastern U.S. — has already led to at least 11 known deaths, CNN reports.

It has staked its future on doing so through devices like its Google Home smart assistant device, a competitor for Amazon's Echo, which sits on a table and responds to voice commands like «What is the weather like today?»

While the network still has amazing reach, being available in roughly 90 million households across the U.S., the channel's ratings have struggled as more people rely on the internet and their mobile devices for weather updates.

While a lot of retail companies have suffered this year — in part because of bad weather in the first quarter — if you look carefully, there are still some good buys on the market.

While the timing wasn't ideal — cycling obviously slows down as the weather cools — a few weeks later, Bikes on Wheels sales clerk John Baker reported that they'd still only sold a few.

In the past three months alone, Lawson's firm, which specializes in commodities consulting, has advised 10 companies (including Levi's) on how to weather the supply shock in a cotton market so volatile that they are no longer able to lock in price.

The two above (for instance) would also work if your story hook was a coastal weather delay or a government report on late flights.

Still, there's a chill — not from the weather as much as the fact that on Nov. 4, Oscar Mayer parent Kraft Heinz announced it would shutter the 96 - year - old meat - and - cheese processing factory at the beginning of 2017.

«Now that winter has arrived on «Game of Thrones,» executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss felt that the storylines of the next season would be better served by starting production a little later than usual, when the weather is changing,» said Casey Bloys, president, HBO programming.

The price discipline relied on by the global duopoly of BPC and Canpotex (Saskatchewan's potash international shipping agency) has — at least for the time being — ended, but according to analysts it's the big players who are really going to be able to weather the industry's current troubles.

Unlike many of its competitors, HBC didn't put too strong an emphasis on the impact the winter's harsh weather had on its sales, although it did say the biggest hit from the weather was in the U.S., not Canada.

Severe weather has been wreaking havoc on baseball through the first few weeks of the 2018 MLB season.

The data may look promising on the surface, but given how good the weather was in June, Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics argues it should have been stronger.

«We've been dealing with minus 40 (degree) weather at times and that necessarily has an impact from a safety perspective on how employees can work,» said Rolheiser.

On nights when the gas crisis or bad weather wreaked havoc on the local bar scene, I recognized that just because we had a guaranteed fee, some nights were not financially successfuOn nights when the gas crisis or bad weather wreaked havoc on the local bar scene, I recognized that just because we had a guaranteed fee, some nights were not financially successfuon the local bar scene, I recognized that just because we had a guaranteed fee, some nights were not financially successful.

The Firefox logo has been etched into the lawns in college quads, spray - painted on highway overpasses, baked into pancakes, sent up 100,000 feet on a weather balloon, and crayoned onto countless human faces.

While coal experiences more ups and downs than other commodities — the weather can have an effect on prices — the black rock has been in use for centuries.

To focus on dividend payers that are better positioned to weather a downturn, go with SPDR S&P Dividend (sdy): It's an exchange - traded fund that invests only in large companies healthy enough to have boosted payouts for at least 20 consecutive years, including warhorses like AT&T (t) and Chevron (cvx).

If you see snow and run to strap on your skis and call your friends, it's unlikely that the weather will affect you in the same way it would if you groaned in misery at the first flake.

It was suddenly trading below the value of its cash and inventory, it had hardly any liabilities and, despite that one revision (which the company blamed on poor weather conditions), it was still making money.

(The actual «most popular» list would be pretty boring, Google says, because it wouldn't change much: We search for generic stuff like «weather» and «Google» year after year, although I'm convinced that this list is more interesting than the search engine is letting on).

Analysts have blamed the slowdown on bad weather, noting that the construction and retail sectors are usually negatively affected during cold snaps.

The report on Monday from the Commerce Department was the latest indication that the rebound from the first quarter's abrupt slowdown would not be as strong as experienced during the same period last year when output was chilled by cold weather.

If you've been on the site for awhile, you have a head start because we've already discussed the importance of a discipline known as asset allocation, which involves selecting among different asset classes to build a well - balanced portfolio that can weather different economic environments, tax regimes, global conditions, inflation or deflation, and a host of other variables that history has shown will fluctuate over time.

Zillow is on the brink of a deal with one of the nation's largest multiple listing services that would help the top real estate portal weather the end of a contract with listing syndicator ListHub.

Other Fed officials, however, have been on record as stating that the U.S. economy is strong enough to weather — and indeed should weather — another benchmark rate increase, certainly by the end of this year.

These companies have been paying close attention to the variables that influence extreme weather and have long sounded the alarm on climate change and disasters.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

That figure would represent an uptick from the gain in March, which was muted partly because of bad weather on the East Coast.

To date, they have been rare (we still see weather disasters as unusual anomalies) and decided on a distributed, ad hoc basis.

And unlike McDonald's, whose American roots are a selling point around the world, there are almost no Canadian companies who have done well internationally by trading on their association with the Maple Leaf — with the sole exception of parka - maker Canada Goose, presumably because Canadians are thought to know something about surviving bone - chilling winter weather.

Since then, adverse weather has limited prospects for crop supplies more than the government expected, and crude oil is up 42 percent from a year earlier, putting more pressure on agricultural prices, Hart said.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

Facebook has weathered many such blow - ups before and is used to apologizing and moving on.

Van Biema's book also includes a lengthy chapter on Lou Simpson, a former GEICO investment manager and eventual successor to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, who is famous for saying, «The stock market is like the weather in that if you don't like the current conditions all you have to do is wait awhile.»

The last two weeks drop in global markets is solid enough evidence of that, as is the freakish weather conditions in different parts of the world that have had a negative impact on the farming sector.

I think we're due for a correction and I'm sure we'll have one in a year or two but as long as you have a solid asset allocation set up and can weather the drops, an investor will come out better off once things clear up and the stock market starts rising again especially if you keep buying on the way down.

He and his wife still have their jobs to fall back on, and with so much skin in the game, both are prepared to weather out Bitcoin's volatility until their mining business gets off the ground.

GE had run into rough weather in last recession of 2008 due to its financial division but it is on mend and on its path of becoming a stable company.