Multiple winter weather-related alerts are in place across parts of New York, as well as further south in the Mid-Atlantic region.

More than 20 states will feel the impacts of the second winter storm to track through the Lower 48 this week as it brings snow and some ice from the Plains to the Midwest, Great Lakes and Northeast.T​his system has been named Iliana by The Weather Channel and it's following on the heels of a separate winter storm named Harlow,

The ingredients needed to create blockbuster Northeast winter storms historically align this month, all that’s needed is a storm to take the right track.