NEW YORK – FOX Weather kicked off "Hurricane HQ Week" on Monday with a live Q&A session with Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross , who answered a range of questions about this year's hurricane season.

Why was Sandy called Superstorm Sandy? Is that still a hurricane?

Norcross, who coined the "superstorm" name himself, explained the complex meteorological scenario.

"Sandy was a really unusual storm," he said. "It was late October, and it came from the South. It was a hurricane, but it started interacting with northern type systems as it got farther north."

Norcross said the National Hurricane Center (NHC) had initially forecast Sandy to transition into a nor'easter. However, Sandy defied typical classifications.

"The tropical system was still intact inside the nor'easter," Norcross note

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