Erin may strengthen into a major Category 3 hurricane Wednesday night, forecasters say. The worst impacts at the Jersey Shore will occur on Thursday.

The latest on Hurricane Erin as of the morning of Aug. 20: a new inner eye wall and more Jersey Shore precautions.

Hurricane Erin is bringing dangerous rip currents and high waves to beaches along the Jersey Shore and Long Island this week.

“She was a happy girl, a very happy girl,” her heartbroken mother Ishrath Parveen told NJ Advance Media Tuesday evening. She and her son Syed Rahman say they’re left with memories and a traumatized younger sister. They shared some of the excruciating details of a Friday night they wish never happened.

It’s easy to make predictions, and some things seem like a given these last few years: the Shore is gentrifying, washing out its local culture in favor of a wannabe Hamptons vibe, especially in places like Avalon and further north in Monmouth County, which seems to want nothing more than to be rebranded as the next Amagansett.

The 34-year-old street performer who created his Batman persona in 2016 now faces multiple weapons charges after allegedly using mace during a boardwalk altercation.