Most hurricanes that go down in history are remembered for the devastation they bring. But with little to no chance of hitting land, Hurricane Erin will be remembered for something else: its size.

With a massive wind field that had grown to roughly the size of Texas by Thursday morning, Erin is among the largest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded. And while the monster storm is mercifully forecast to avoid land, Erin's bands are so vast that it sparked evacuation orders and beach closures along the U.S. East Coast this week, hundreds of miles from the center of the storm.

"It's big," LSU hurricane researcher Jill Trepanier said. "It's going to keep getting bigger."

Size and intensity, just to be clear, are not the same when it comes to hurricanes.

While Erin had weakened to a Category

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