Frigid winter storm drenches area for second day, more frost and mountain snow

SAN DIEGO - A frigid winter storm drenched and frosted the San Diego area for a second day today, delivering more heavy rain and mountain snow before moving out of the area in the late morning.

The blustery atmospheric system, which moved in Monday, brought more than an inch of rain to some inland communities and at least a foot of frozen white flakes to some of the county's highest elevations, according to the National Weather Service.

By noon, the eastward-departing clouds had dropped 1.14 inches of precipitation in Escondido; 1.1 at Mount Woodson; 1.02 in Vista; 1 inch in Alpine; 0.98 in Va...