Hurricane Erin was a Category 4 storm Monday morning and is expected to retain major hurricane status through the middle of the week.

Hold onto your hats and get out your umbrella. Connecticut is expected to see downpours Wednesday and into the evening Wednesday. Those downpours, however, are not a result of Hurricane Erin, which was a Category 2 hurricane Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said, with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph.

Erin is a category 3 major hurricane with winds of 115 mph and is located approximately 750 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras as of Tuesday morning.

Additional strengthening is expected as the storm is forecast to “remain a large and dangerous major hurricane through the middle of this week,” the National Hurricane Center said.

What are the chances of two new systems forming in the wake of Hurricane Erin? Here’s what the so-called spaghetti models are showing for possible tracks.

Hurricane Erin on Monday bulked back up, but then dropped back down, although still a major Category 3 storm as it moved near the Bahamas with an increasing wind field that prompted new tropical

Hurricane Erin forced tourists to cut their vacations short on North Carolina’s Outer Banks even though the monster storm is expected to stay offshore after lashing part of the Caribbean with rain and wind on Monday.

The hurricane’s behavior in recent days makes it one of the fastest-strengthening Atlantic hurricanes on record.