It’s going to be a bit rainy for Halloween this year.

The forecast for central Pennsylvania calls for rain this week, sustained across several days, according to the National Weather Service .

Rain is expected to begin on Wednesday afternoon and evening this week, with showers continuing until Thursday.

And, as many neighborhoods hold their trick-or-treat nights on Oct. 30, that might mean making some rain-based adjustments to the kids’ Halloween costumes.

“Thursday night, it’s going to be a wet one,“ said John Bowen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in State College. ”You can expect it to be that steady kind of light rain Thursday night, with cooler highs — on Thursday things are only expected, in the region, to get into the mid-to-upper 50s.”

Things will also cool

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