While much of the mid-Atlantic was digging out from a winter storm that brought heavy snow to the Washington, D.C., area, a second storm is expected to follow, bringing snow, sleet and freezing rain along a more northerly track from Colorado to Maine.

It’s a snow day in Kansas City, and a winter storm is blanketing the metro with several inches of snowfall early Wednesday. In Kansas City’s Northland, just over 2 inches of snow had already fallen by 7 a.m. near Liberty, and the worst is yet to come.

Around 2:30 p.m., some snow was showing up on weather radar in the Garden State, but a dry layer of air in the lower atmosphere was causing the snow to evaporate before reaching the ground. That’s a phenomenon known as virga. Shortly before 4 p.m., light snow was reported in parts of Cape May County, including Wildwood and Cape May.

Back-to-back winter storms are predicted to affect 29 million Americans across the country. Here’s the latest from the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch from Tuesday morning until Wednesday morning,

WBZ-TV meteorologists Alyssa Andrews and Terry Eliasen discuss Thursday's storm and a system this weekend that could bring more snow and rain to the northeast.