Forecasters with the National Weather Service of New Orleans said Monday that tropical activity is not expected across south Louisiana for at least the next 10 days.

Hurricane Erin, now a powerful Category 4 storm churning in the Caribbean, is not forecast to hit land, but it will bring large waves and dangerous rip currents to the U.S. East Coast.Here's the latest forecast:Erin’s outer bands lashed the Caribbean this weekend,

As of Monday afternoon, Hurricane Erin was spinning several hundred miles south and east of Florida and forecasters are expecting the storm to grow bigger.