San Diego County will get third and final wave of rain on Thursday

The third and final wave of a dawdling Pacific storm will hit San Diego County Thursday afternoon, wrapping up four days of soaking rains, heavy snow, tree-snapping winds and lightning that arced through the darkest hours of the night, the National Weather Service says.

The unsettled weather will be much tamer than it was before dawn on Wednesday, when the wind gusted to 80 mph at El Cajon Mountain and 50 mph in and around San Diego, Oceanside and Imperial Beach. Snow was expected to approach a foot deep on Mount Laguna by Wednesday night.

The weather also delayed 161 flights  at San Diego International Airport and dropped enough rain to make freeways slick during the morning rush hour.

At 10 a.m., the weather service released impressive rainfall totals for the first three days of the storm: Lake Cuyamaca, 5.89 inches; Julian, 4.78 inches; Henshaw Dam, 4.03 inches; Volcan Mountain, 3.93 inches; Pine Valley, 3.41 inches; Skyline Ranch, 3.11 inches; Descanso, 3.02 inches; Mt. Woodson, 2.70 inches; Ramona, 2.67 inches; Barona, 2.61 inches; Valley Center, 2.61 inches; Otay Mountain, 2.61 inches; Escondido, 2.26 inches; San Diego Country Estates, 2.16 inches; Miramar Lake, 2.13 inches; Poway, 2.08 inches; La Mesa, 1.98 inches; Santee, 1.96 inches; Fallbrook, 1.76 inches; Rancho Bernardo, 1.88 inches; Carlsbad, 1.70 inches; San Marcos, 1.61 inches; Brown Field, 1.57 inches; Fashion Valley, 1.39 inches; San Diego International Airport, 1.16 inches; National C...