The latest snowpack statistics for the Hood, Sandy, and Lower Deschutes basin show snow water equivalent numbers about one-third lower than normal.  The Natural Resources Conservation Service snowpack survey shows the basin at 69% of normal as of Thursday.  Survey supervisor Scott Oviatt said the figure had been above 80 percent early in January, but storms this month have been in the form of rain at higher elevations.  Oviatt does point out that we still have about two months left in the snow season, with late March to early April snowpack the determinant for what kind of water year the area will have.