Hurricane Harvey and tropical storms battering the Gulf Coast are now affecting Canada too.

Gas prices across the country, have been increasing, with prices expected to jump by as much as 10-cents a litre before the Labour Day long weekend.

Senior Petroleum Analyst with Gasbuddy.com, Dan McTeague, says the jump at the pump can be blamed on production affected by the natural disaster in Texas.

"At this time at least a quarter of U.S. production and consumption is not available," he says. "Americans will run short of gasoline likely some point mid-next week. The last weekend of summer brings with it the real prospect that this time next week we wont just be dealing with higher prices, but we're likely to see shortages in some parts of the U.S."

McTeague says this is just the beginning, as the U.S. is still seeing a host of refineries close down, he says some waited until the bitter end to say they couldn't produce gasoline.

"If you're not getting crude coming in with ports that are closed, if you don't have electricity, if your workers cant show up because they're under 6 feet of water, and even if you did produce gasoline where would they send it? All of the transportation routes are impassable. It seems to me that it was a delayed reaction, so right now we're still in the early stages. We could still see further increases at the pumps post Labour Day Long weekend, and those prices may be sticking around for the entire month of September."

McTeague says you might be in luck if you wait for a few days for prices to drop a bit, but starting next week prices will again creep upwards.

"Look and brace for higher prices, if you don't like $108.9/L it will likely go down over the next couple of days as retailers drop a few pennies here and there. However next week the other shoe could still drop, and we could see prices moving up well into the $1.10/L $1.15/L range worst case scenario."