Summer is warm to hot like most of the upper east coast of North America. Picnics and camping are major loves of Nova Scotians. Fall weather can be crisp in the morning, with a heavy white frost on everything, followed within hours by a warm day. The trees are breathtaking as the leaves turn to vibrant colors. Pumpkins with toothy smiles, some with candles in them, sit on front steps and lawns awaiting goblins and ghosts on Halloween.
Winter brings snow and bitterly cold temperatures.
People everywhere will be out skiing, skating and sledding. Nova Scotia has the highest tides in the world. One hundred billion tons of ocean water, a tidal surge that begins in the Indian Ocean, flow into the Bay of Fundy. The tide lifts boats and ships. Mudflats, where people dig for clams beneath swooping, wailing seabirds, is, within hours, filled with water and a bountiful supply of fish, including lobsters and herring.