A sliver of the huge weather system that dumped upwards of 5 feet of snow in Northern California angled through San Diego County Monday, bringing soaking rains, damaging winds and flash-bang lightning.

The system seemed to mock the calendar; with spring only two weeks away, snow wafted on to the mountains and foothills, falling all the way down to the 4,100-foot level in Julian. It was the first major system to hit San Diego since late January, when a powerful windstorm caused power outages and toppled trees, one which killed a woman in Pacific Beach.