Since the adverse weather conditions fell on a portion of the Labor Day weekend, the local resort industry suffered economical losses.
But leveraged buyouts have less flexibility to weather falling revenue because of their high debt levels.
"When you see it before midnight, the cold weather, fall, is approaching," he said.
I'm told that it is now fall — lower temperatures, sweater weather, falling leaves, football — although it's been incredibly warm and humid here at Wordplay.
Bob and Betty, both wary about love (as expressed in the yearning "Love and the Weather"), fall for each other but start bickering right away.
Indeed, building permits, which indicate future activity and were not affected by weather, fell 1.6 percent in February after robust gains in recent months.
The blast of frigid air sent temperatures plunging as far south as the Texas panhandle, where balmy 70-degree weather fell into the teens overnight.
Many other types of extreme weather fall into this category, with scientists lacking a strong basis for attributing increases to human activity, or for discounting a human effect.
These stocks tend to weather falling markets better than other stocks, he said, and the dividends tend to reduce price volatility.
Centrica's full-year operating profits fell by 35% to £1.75 billion ($2.7 billion), and earnings at British Gas's residential business, the part most affected by the warmer weather, fell by 23% to £439m.
The owner of Sweden's main stock exchange, OM AB, agreed to buy the rest of HEX Oyj, owner of the Helsinki bourse, for 171 million euros ($199 million) to cut costs and help it weather falling markets.
