Hurricane Jessica (hypothetical)

Hurricane Jessica was the strongest storm of the 2029 hurricane season that was most notable for destroying the United States' capital city, Washington DC and also noted for being the tropical cyclone in history to kill a US president and vice president simultaneously. It also topped the record was being the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded, succeeding Typhoon Tip's record 50 years ago. It had a minimal central pressure of 821 hPa (mbar) and maximum wind speeds of 285 mph. Overall, the storm killed a modest 79,000 civilians and costed USD $1.2 trillion in damage (surpassing Hurricane Katrina's record 24 years earlier).

Storm history
Jessica started out from a massive, yet unorganized tropical wave off the coast of west Africa on June 27 that later entered an area of almost no wind shear and water temperatures of 93 degrees. The next day, it merged from the remants of Hurricane Irene that moved southeast. The low then suddenly had enormous amounts of convection and a stable low-level circulation with minimum wind speeds of 75 mph. Meanwhile, the NHC then noted the storm for its sudden intensification that Jessica became the first tropical in history to skip tropical depression and storm status. Because of its slow movement across the Atlantic and its exposure to extremely favoritable conditions, within 24 hours, Jessica fully became a Category 5 hurricane with a wind speeds of 160 mph and a minimum pressure of 929 mbar.

Shortly after, Jessica underwent a major eyewall replacement cycle which weakened the hurricane to strong Category 3 status of 130 mph winds, but 12 hours later it developed a clear, open pinhole eye thus becomeing a rare annular hurricane and regaining Category 5 status with 180 mph winds. Nonetheless, on July 1, Jessica was positioned at the central Atlantic Ocean moving over extremely high water temperatures of 97 degrees at slow speeds and was forecasted to hit Washington DC, USA on July 4.

But another eyewall replacement cycle occurred with Jessica becoming a minimal Category 5 for a short time. Immediately after completeting its second eyewall replacement cycle, large amounts of deep convection bursts made Jessica a 1000-mile wide monster with a large eye of 50 miles wide. While Jessica began hurling itself into DC, it only kept on strengthening until it reached its peak on July 4 with 285 mph winds and a minimal central pressure of 821 mbar while making landfall over northeastern Virginia. From there, it moved over DC as predicted and through the monster's gigantic eyewall, satellites up from low-earth orbit took snapshots of Jessica's assault on DC on its first half of its attack.

But the storm moved on when its eastern eyewall covered up DC and slowly moved onto the eastern Great Lakes states. On July 5, Jessica weakened to a large, decaying tropical storm over southern Michigan and weakened into a depression after crossing Lake Superior into Canada. Jessica's remants then merged with a non-tropical system over central Canada on July 7.