Hurricane Erin has dropped to a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 123 mph as it passes north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. As of 8 a.m., Aug. 17, the storm was located about 270 miles north-northwest of San Juan,

Hurricane Erin could 'at least double or triple in size' next week and the track has shifted south, but remains likely to turn away from the East Coast.

The National Hurricane Center is currently predicting the storm to turn north and curl away from United States east coast without ever making landfall. Spaghetti models, which represent a collection of predicted paths generated by multiple computer models,