Anchorage suffers one of coldest Octobers ever: Alaska News | adn.com

Anchorage has logged the eighth coldest October on record, the National Weather Service said today.

With an average temperature of 29.7 degrees, October landed a spot in history as one of the 10 coldest out of the roughly 90 years since records have been kept in Anchorage.

Tibet’s ‘worst snowstorm ever’, 7 killed « Watts Up With That?

LHASA, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) — The death toll has risen to seven, and one person remains missing, as a result of the worst snowstorm on record in Tibet, local authorities said Thursday.

The seven people killed either frozen to death or were crushed by collapsing buildings. About 144,400 heads of livestock died in the storm, which also knocked out telecommunications and traffic in parts of Shannan prefecture.

Arctic sea ice continues rebound « Watts Up With That?

Area appears to be within about 200,000 square kilometers of the 1979-2007 monthly average and still climbing.