Scary trick-or-treat forecast for most of the US

Several weather systems lead to a scary forecast for most of the United States as people go trick-or-treating on Halloween night. Multiple layers and winter coats will also be a necessity for some in addition to kiddo’s Halloween costumes, while record heat is possible for others.

A fearsome low pressure system will move over the Great Lakes on Halloween night, pulling a dangerous cold front across the Midwest, Lower Mississippi Valley and western Gulf Coast. Ghosts and goblins may have to dodge a few raindrops early overnight across the Midwest and central Mississippi Valley. This includes Boos, Ill., and Black Cat, Ark.

Showers and thunderstorms will accompany most people in the Great Lakes, Ohio and Tennessee Valleys and the western Gulf Coast. Cities likely to have a drenching night include Devils Elbow, Mich., Dead Man’s Crossing, Ind., Bloody Corners, Ohio, Transylvania Beach, Ky., Screamer, Tenn., Bloody Springs, Miss., Treat, La. , and Chocolate Bayou, Texas.

For northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, it will be a wild night as temperatures will be cold enough for light to moderate wet snow or a rain/snow mix. Any new snow accumulation that falls during trick-or-treating will be minimal. However, the snow from earlier in the day could increase to up to 4 to 8 inches in some places! These places may have to pair those Halloween costumes with snow boots, including in Witch Lake, Mich.

Another low pressure system will lurk over the Northwest. Rain showers will soak any witches or wizards in the lower elevations of the Northwest, Northern California, and the Northern Rockies. Meanwhile, snow will fall over the higher elevations. However, mainly small, if any, accumulations are expected. A wet, snowy forecast is in store for places like Witch Hazel, Ore., Devils Ladder, Idaho and Devils Den, Wyo.

It will be eerily quiet for vampires and monsters to gather their candy for the desert southwest, most of the plains, and the east coast. Quiet weather awaits towns like Death Valley, Calif., Pumpkin, Texas, Screamer, Ala., Pumpkintown, NC, Spook Hill, Md., Skull Run, W.Va., Bloody, NH and Deadmans Corner, Maine.

Expect bitterly cold weather for much of the nation. Temperatures will generally be in the 30s and 40s for the Northwest, Great Basin and Rockies in the Northern Plains, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes. Widespread 20s will send a chill down people’s spines for the higher elevations of the Mountain West. These cold temperatures will be found in places like Devils Slide, Utah, Spook City, Colo., Pumpkin Center, SD, Casper, Wyo., and Devils Gap, Neb.

Dress in extra layers or bring a jacket if you’re in California, the Central Plains, or the rest of the Midwest. Temperatures will drop into the 50s and lower 60s, including in Slaughterville, Oklahoma.

Temperatures will be on the milder side for collecting candy for the desert southwest to the southern plains and throughout the eastern United States. Here, it should be in the 60s and 70s when you head out at night, including places like Tombstone, Ariz., Slaughter Beach, Del., Deadman Landing, Fla., Skullhead, Ga., Spiderweb, SC, Goblintown , Va., Hershey, Pa., and Sleepy Hollow, NY