As we stood in a chill wind on Sixth Avenue, he was obviously uncomfortable discussing it, but he is a storyteller, and he eventually launched into a narrative.
Without standing, he lifts his left foot and drags a brittle friction match across the sole of his boot, then watches the red tip flare and expire in the chill wind before he can transfer the flame.
Wind was a major issue in some places, with wind chill warnings and advisories in effect from North Dakota to West Virginia and on into parts of New England.
Chicago is dealing with a foot and a half of snow, freezing rain is falling in the Northeast and the wind chill is in the 20s here in the Sonoran Desert.
Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs.
The two-week training and selection exercise in Iceland has seen him working in temperatures with a wind chill of -30C.
And now they're up on high hilltops, 77-below wind chill factors in winter.
David Wright added an RBI double and Duda doubled, reached base three times and scored twice in a game that began with a wind chill of 32 degrees.
In the meantime, Weather Channel has used a simpler measure, called "feels like, " to express temperature in a temperature-like number, taking into account wind chill at low temperatures and humidity at high temperatures.
Such tricky matters seem a long way off standing in bright sunshine on the summit of Halgurd, buffeted by the chill wind and tired from the climb.
Yet, bending to the chill American wind blowing out of Iraq and through its now-closed offices in Damascus, Hamas has been making conciliatory noises and intends to continue talks with Mr Abbas's government.
Winds have been strong, in some cases blowing more than 70 kph (43 mph), which makes the wind chill much colder than the air temperature.
The wind has also been particularly strong, in some cases over 70 kilometers per hour (43 miles per hour), which makes the wind chill much colder than the air temperature.
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