There are a few of these areas all over. I know of one not far from State College PA. They call it the barrens.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0477(1980)061<1368%3ATBCPYR>2.0.CO%3B2
It looks tough going forward. We went on a run from here on out last year. Maybe “run” is a little bit of an embellishment....but I made up significant ground.