Mother nature set to serve warm, sunny weather this weekend

With the recent damp, chilly weather, Nova Scotians can’t be blamed for avoiding the ice cream and reaching for the hot chocolate instead.

Cue this coming weekend, expected to be sunshine-filled with temperatures in the mid- to high-20s.

“It has definitely been a bit of a slow start with the weather being all funny, but we still have been pretty steady given the cruise ships that come to town,’” Paige Pedersen, retail manager at Sugah Confectionery & Ice Cream Emporium, said Thursday.

Pedersen said her employees were already busy preparing for this weekend’s expected burst of warm and sunny weather.

“We’re getting our second freezer fired up, so we are making sure we have enough ice cream to make everybody happy,” she said.

At Dee Dee’s Ice Cream, employee Gabby Riefes said Thursday the weather hasn’t really impacted business because they have many regular customers who still want their ice cream fix.

This weekend’s summery forecast couldn’t have been served up at a better time for Emma Adamski.

On Thursday, she opened the doors to her new business, Manual Food & Drink Co. Dairy Bar. She’s expecting business to be brisk this weekend now that the weather is supposed to co-operate.

“It’s our first business ever and I guess where we’re kind of dependent on weather; we lucked out pretty hard on this weekend being nice,” Adamski said. “We’re trying to channel the old school dairy bar vibe but take it up a notch with some of our toppings.”

It’s not in your head; this June has been a bit dismal.

There are still two weeks left, but up to June 16 this month has been a pretty chilly one weather-wise.

“So far for this month we have been below normal,” Environment Canada meteorologist Tracey Talbot said.

Talbot said a normal high for Halifax in June is 20.4 degrees, a normal low is 9.7 degrees, and the average for June is 15.1 degrees.