Wind turbines extract a lot of energy, about 30-35%, that passes through.
Now they are building a lot of them, more and more powerful.
Change wind trajectory is easy, if a lot of obstacles is in its trajectory, it goes to upper layer
Stop wind rises A LOT temperatures, as happens in cities with tall buildings
Wind also decrease water temperature when passing over it. In Malaga now the sea water temperture in August reach 30ºC, that is more than 10º over previous years and wind do not refresh at night
And at last, wind distributes the temperature avoiding large differences
Firstly, I think you can disregard the effect of wind turbines on the atmospheric wind speed if you are not within the wind farm, or directly behind it (and at the same height as the rotor). I don't think that the wind speed will be much affected at the ground level, except for the influence of the wind turbine towers.
Secondly, the total volume occupied by the rotor wakes is negligible compared to the rest of the atmospheric boundary layer (about 1000m high). So I don't think "hurricanes" will be created :)
You say that cities with tall buildings have a local effect on temperature, and I agree. But unless you plan to live in the middle of a wind farm I don't see how that is much relevant. Also note that a single 10MW wind turbine could power about 10 units of the tallest building in Málaga (AQ Urban Sky, ~100m tall).
I assume that there are other global phenomena affecting weather patterns (e.g. "wind not refreshing at night"). I would not blame it on wind turbines :)
Both ocean and land warming due to greenhouse gas emissions are documented global phenomena, not locally related to wind farms. Maybe this is what you are noticing, see for example [1],[2].
[1]: https://showyourstripes.info/
[2]: https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/spain
"Firstly, I think you can disregard the effect of wind turbines on the atmospheric wind speed if you are not within the wind farm, or directly behind it (and at the same height as the rotor). I don't think that the wind speed will be much affected at the ground level, except for the influence of the wind turbine towers."
Have you calculated that a lot of terawatts-hour not affects locally?
Take in account that every megawatt of energy extracted from the wind will have a multiplier coefficient of at least 20x due the Carnot efficiency, so temperature differences will rise A LOT more than expected.
Hurricanes appears if there are more difference temperatures, as example if the wind is stopped due sea wind farms and wind does not refresh the water surface. https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/hurricanes.html
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