Horrors! Halloween snow likely in Great Lakes, Northeast

Forget Dracula. Around the Great Lakes and Northeast, Frosty the Snowman might be a better Halloween costume.

Bone-chilling air, rain and even some early-season snow will fall on parts of those regions on Friday, according to a forecast from AccuWeather.

Wet snow is likely on Halloween — and Halloween night — in parts of Michigan, northern and eastern Wisconsin, the Ohio Valley and Appalachians. Though much of it won't accumulate, some will stick at higher elevations. A few flakes could even fly around the trick-or-treaters in Detroit.

Snow isn't all that unusual in the interior Northeast and New England this time of year: The season's first measurable snow usually falls during the first week of November in cities such as Buffalo, Syracuse and Burlington, Vt.

And there have been other snow events around Halloween over the years, including the Halloween Nor'easter of 2011, which deposited a half a foot of snow or more from central Maryland to central Maine, AccuWeather reports.

Aside from the snow, wind chill temperatures will tumble into the 20s around the Great Lakes and the 30s in the Ohio Valley on Friday evening.

By the weekend, more snow could whiten the Adirondacks and the mountains of northern New England and West Virginia, and perhaps as far south as the Smokies, the Weather Channel forecasts. Parts of the central Appalachians will receive their first accumulating snow of the season, as well, according to AccuWeather.

Elsewhere for Halloween, the only other trouble spot will be the West Coast, where rain is likely for much of Washington, Oregon and even bone-dry California, where any precipitation is welcome.