Hurricane Erin weakened overnight, but it's still a category 2 storm. Here's a look at the latest forecast and the storm's path.

Every week in the summer, Delaware Online/The News Journal provides this weekly guide to the Delaware beaches. Here's what's happening this week. Hurricane Erin isn't expected to make landfall, but the magnitude of the storm means that even as it passes hundreds of miles offshore, its effects will be felt along the coast.

Meteorologists are closely tracking the projected path and forecast of Hurricane Erin, which is the first hurricane to develop over the Atlantic this year.

The Category 2 hurricane saw its winds weaken to as low as 100 mph on Aug. 19 as its north side battled winds, but the National Hurricane Center said early on Aug. 20 that the storm had reformed an inner eye wall, and a Hurricane Hunter mission this morning is expected to help the center determine if winds have increased in response.

For people living along the Delaware River, 1955 has become the measuring stick for flooding and property damage. The highwater mark of 43.7 feet at Easton caused by Hurricane Diane on Aug. 18-19, 1955, remains a record. But it is not alone. A series of three major floods between 2004 and 2006 similarly shocked the region.

A tropical storm warning has been issued for North Carolina as Hurricane Erin churns up the east coast of the U.S. as a Category 2 storm. The National Hurricane Center said Wednesday morning that the storm was about 400 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras,

Get an abbreviated, text view of what's happening with Hurricane Erin. Hurricane Erin was a Category 4 storm again Monday morning and is expected to grow even larger and stronger, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center.