Nor'easter threatens up to a foot of snow in wake of Sandy Trisha McAvoy carries bedding to her car while evacuating from her home in Brick Township, NJ., Tuesday due to the approaching storm. Updated at 7:13 a.m.: NEW YORK - A new storm closed in on the Northeast coast Wednesday, threatening to dump up to 12 inches of snow in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. "Mother Nature is not cutting us a break along the East Coast," winter weather expert Tom Niziol told The Weather Channel on Wednesday. We've got a lot of cold air in place down in the lower part of the atmosphere, and it is looking more like snowfall event for good portions of New Jersey, up through eastern Pennsylvania, right up through southeastern New York into New England. This is a nor'easter. It's not a massive nor'easter by winter standards, but at this time of year immediately after Sandy's wrath and destruction, this isn't what we want," he added. The Weather Channel was forecasting three inches of snow in Philadelphia with winds gusting over 30 mph, a combination of wet snow and wind in New Jersey, with snowfalls of six to 12 inches in southeastern New York and New England. A storm surge of one to three feet along the coast in New Jersey was also forecast. It is cold; it has been cold, yesterday morning we had a record-low of 27 (degrees) in Newark. Yesterday's high got into the low 40s and we've got another cold night tonight," Weather Channel storm reporter Mike Seidel said Wednesday morning from Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. "We'll have some rain moving in (to the Jersey shore) later this morning and this afternoon," he added, predicting "a cold, rainy, just raw day." There will be some snow mixing in along the coast. In inland areas, we could see some (snow) accumulating on the grass. The strongest winds will be this afternoon, this evening," he added. In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday ordered police to use their patrol car loudspeakers to warn vulnerable residents about evacuating, one of a number of measures that the beleaguered city was taking even as weather experts said the storm could be weaker than expected. From weather.com: Storm's city-by-city forecasts Full coverage of Sandy's aftermath Want to help the recovery?