Both the Atwater and Snowbird SNOTELs look like they will hit the end of the snowcover season today or tomorrow.
The Atwater site is across from Alta Ski Area. This is a relatively new site with only a few years of data, so don't read too much into the median or range of prior data. It currently sits at 0.3" of water equivalent, which for all intents and purposes puts it at zero today.
Snowbird sits at 1.9", but it has been a flaky site all season and only declined from 2.2 to 1.9" yesterday, which makes little sense, but it's not unusual to see some odd observations when the snowpack is near the end.
These are of course point observations, so there's still going to be some snow out there, but as far as the SNOTEL observations are concerned, this is the end of the snow season in the central Wasatch.
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