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 == ""Superstorm Sandy"" in first sentence as alternate title? == 

 It's now approaching the one year anniversary of the storm. Before we get there, I think we should settle whether or not to include the name ""Superstorm Sandy"" in the first sentence. ""Superstorm Sandy"" gets a hefty 3.7 million Google hits (compared to 15 million for ""Hurricane Sandy"". I believe the article does a disservice by not including the alternate name. Just six days ago, FEMA called it ""Superstorm Sandy"", the National Weather Service called it as such, and it continues to be a regular name in the news (see CNN). At this point, it's become a perfectly valid alternative name to the event, and it should be treated as such in the first sentence as:  

  Hurricane Sandy (unofficially known as Superstorm Sandy) was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season 

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