Lucy Estelle Wetkin, 11, sleds off a jump in front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
A series of winter storms swept across the United States this week, bringing snow, sleet and freezing rain to millions of Americans from coast to coast.
Nearly 200 million people across 40 states were under some sort of winter weather advisory, according to the National Weather Service.
The first storm dumped over a foot of snow in parts of the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic, including Washington, D.C., which was blanketed by over 6 inches of snowfall on Tuesday. The White House, National Mall and U.S. Capitol were covered in white.
Snow blankets the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. (Astrid Riecken/Washington Post via Getty Images)
A person holds a small snowman in front of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
People walk past the Capitol in a snowstorm in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
A view to the White House in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. (Alex Brandon/AP)
Bushes are covered with snow in front of the White House on Wednesday. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
The Washington Monument is seen from the Lincoln Memorial as snow covers the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
Snow covers the sign outside the State Department in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
The snow made for a picturesque setting in the nation’s capital and other cities along the Interstate 95 corridor, where snowfall rates were an inch an hour in some spots. (It also made for lots of shoveling.)
A person clears snow in Howard Beach, Queens, N.Y., on Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Additional snow fell in the New York City area, which saw up to half a foot of snow during last weekend’s storm.
A third system was expected to bring heavy snow to the Sierra Nevadas and Rockies as well as heavy rain to California before bringing the potential for more snow and ice to the Plains, Midwest and Northeast.
Photographers have been capturing wonderful images of this week’s wintry weather, some of which we’ve collected here.
A woman walks through a snow-covered path in Centreville, Md., on Wednesday. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
Snow is reflected in Chicago’s Cloud Gate sculpture on Wednesday. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
A worker clears snow from a sidewalk in Chicago on Wednesday. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
A pedestrian crosses K Street NW, in Washington D.C., during a snow shower on Tuesday. (Robert Miller/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
As snow falls Tuesday night in downtown Silver Spring, Md., a man tries to ride an electric bike on the sidewalk. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
People walk through snow at the Capitol on Tuesday. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Hansen Chen, left, and June Liu enjoy the snow-covered scenery at Little Seneca Lake in Boyds, Md., on Tuesday. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The MBTA Mattapan-Ashmont Trolley makes it through the snow on Feb. 9 in Boston. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
A street scene in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Saturday during a winter snowstorm. (NDZ/Star Max)
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