All true. Actually, there isn't one month in the entire year that doesn't experience >100 mph winds (either sustained or gusts) in a normal year -- even during the summer months.
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)