We are currently in the middle of what meteorologists have deemed “The Hurricane Season”. Obviously, living in the middle of the country, we don’t have to worry too much about the destructive nature of a hurricane. Although, some areas would welcome some of the rainfall one of those things has! But a hurricane can influence our weather by pumping a lot of moisture and clouds our way, but this is mainly an indirect effect.
Considering that most of our adverse weather occurs when we get a southeasterly flow coming from the Gulf of Mexico, hurricanes that originate and make landfall on the gulf coast are the ones that will affect us the most, if at all. Again, we don’t see the extremely high winds or the torrential rainfall but when you add a lot of moisture to an area that we get most of our moisture from, it can sometimes change our weather.
If the wind flow from the southeast is just right, we can see an increased chance in rain activity and an increase in cloud cover. But typically, the effects of a hurricane after it makes landfall in the Gulf of Mexico is usually as far north as Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and sometimes Missouri. By the time it gets that far north, other meteorological effects have taken hold and disperse things east.