As we look to the second half of December, the near-term outlook doesn't show signs of above average snowfall to come and we may need to rely on a late month pattern change if we are to curb that drier than average outlook. I'm not ready to call it a solid dry pattern across the region despite what GFS and Euro show for the remainder of the month, below are their respective outlooks: We've seen in the previous two weeks that there were some ill-forecast(by the same models) areas of beneficial