Winter storms hit the US – in pictures

A car sits abandoned during a heavy snowfall in Iowa City Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Residents in Iowa City turn to the shovel in an attempt to clear roads Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

A winter storm in Hartford, Connecticut, brings traffic to a halt Photograph: Jessica Hill/AP

Tim Houchin walks to work in the snow in Tulsa, Oklahoma Photograph: Christopher Smith/AP

A car lands vertically into a snowbank on Interstate 93 during a snow storm north of Salem, New Hampshire Photograph: Tim Jean/AP

Commuters wait for a bus on Michigan Avenue in Chicago Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

God moves in mysterious ways in Poughkeepsie, New York Photograph: Spencer Ainsley/AP

A toddler helps shovel snow from a driveway in Cohassett, Massachusetts Photograph: Stephan Savoia/AP

Hundreds of cars are stranded on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago Photograph: Kiichiro Sato/AP

End of the road in Enfield, Connecticut Photograph: Jessica Hill/AP

Edmond, Oklahoma, was among those areas hit by high winds Photograph: David McDaniel/AP

Wildlife, such as these birds in Dallas, Texas, have been affected Photograph: Larry W. Smith/EPA

Arctic temparatures in Lake Michigan at Port Washington, Wisconsin Photograph: Jeffrey Phelps/AP

University of Missouri in Columbia closed its campus due to an approaching blizzard Photograph: L.G. Patterson/AP

University of Iowa pipefitter Jeff Harland uses a shovel to dig out snow that had blown into the Carver Biomedical Reseach Building Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Lorries traverse the I-70 near Boonville, Missouri Photograph: L.G. Patterson/AP

A man walks behind high snowdrift in Racine County, Wisconsin Photograph: Darren Hauck/Reuters

Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images