I’m sure that you are right, but I don’t think that the temperature of the air when it is in that area makes too much of a difference... the 5% relative humidity and the 70 - 90 mph gusts is what is doing the damage.... unfortunately....
And there is an essay somewhere about how “Hurricane” got its name!
We have prevailing winds from the northeast, right out of Zion National Park, so on days when there is no wind, we sort of swelter in the summer because we’re used to a cooling breeze. In the winter, if there is no wind, we bask in the sunshine. If we have it.
But it’s a High Desert, so it takes getting used to!
When I was young and the Scouts still had Boy and Girl variants I was taught you need 3 things to create and maintain a fire: oxygen, fuel, and heat. That’s why we taught the byos to bank their small tinder fires to protect the heat generated to get the fire going.
I can’t imagine cold winds don’t help, at least somewhat.