Texas wind farm affects land temperature | Eastern NC Now

By Patrick Lynch,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

A Texas region containing four of the world's largest wind farms showed an increase in land surface temperature over nine years that researchers have connected to local meteorological effects of the turbines.

The land surface temperature around the west-central Texas wind farms warmed at a rate of 0.72 degrees Celsius per decade during the study period relative to nearby regions without wind farms, an effect most likely caused by the turbulence in turbine wakes acting like fans to pull down warmer air from higher altitudes at night, said lead author Liming Zhou at the University of Albany, State University of New York.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/728/texas-wind-farm-affects-land-temperature/

So much for cooling things off.