Regarding your first comment, my post was written in early August (clearly indicated at the beginning of the post) when it was still unclear whether a new record for minimum sea ice extent would be set. It wasn’t. However, it is now clear that a record was set for minimum sea ice volume. See: European Space Agency Confirms that 2008 Sea-ice Volume Reached Record Low

As to your list of temperatures, that’s weather not climate. Moreover, I did a little checking and some of your data are not correct.

Data compiled by the IceAgeNow website shows that record lows are being matched and broken on an almost daily basis in states throughout the U.S. as the country prepares for a freezing cold winter.

Record lows have been matched or beaten in the following states over the course of the last two weeks.

OCTOBER 25TH

Corpus Christi, TX – 39 Degrees Fahrenheit
Islip, NY – 31 Degrees Fahrenheit

OCTOBER 24TH

Montague, CA – 26 Degrees Fahrenheit
Traverse City, MI Breaks old record of 24 set in 1976 – 22 Degrees Fahrenheit
Pocatello, ID Ties previous record set in 1949 – 18 Degrees Fahrenheit
Trenton, NJ Ties record set in 1969 – 29 Degrees Fahrenheit
Austin, TX Ties old record set in 2005 – 37 Degrees Fahrenheit
Troutdale, OR Breaks old record of 36 set in 2002 – 33 Degrees Fahrenheit
Seattle, WA – 38 Degrees Fahrenheit
McGrath, AK Breaks old record of 9 degrees set in 1982 – 5 Degrees Fahrenheit

OCTOBER 23RD

Rome, OR Breaks old record of 20 set in 1980 – 15 Degrees Fahrenheit
Caribou, ME Breaks old record of 21 set in 1982 – 20 Degrees Fahrenheit
Winslow, AZ – 21 Degrees Fahrenheit
Traverse City, MI Breaks old record of 24 set in 1976 – 22 Degrees Fahrenheit
Grand Junction, CO Breaks old record of 26 set in 1996 – 23 Degrees Fahrenheit
Hilo, HI – 64 Degrees Fahrenheit
Childress, TX – 34 Degrees Fahrenheit
Bountiful, UT – 28 Degrees Fahrenheit
Burley, ID – 21 Degrees Fahrenheit
Idaho Falls, ID Breaks old record of 18 set in 1958 – 17 Degrees Fahrenheit
Challis, ID – 17 Degrees Fahrenheit
Pendleton, OR – 29 Degrees Fahrenheit
Union, OR Breaks previous record of 20 set in 1980 – 17 Degrees Fahrenheit
Walla Walla, WA – 32 Degrees Fahrenheit
Pocatello, ID – 18 Degrees Fahrenheit
Alamosa, CO Breaks old record of 6 set in 1958 – 4 Degrees Fahrenheit
San Angelo, TX – 30 Degrees Fahrenheit

OCTOBER 22ND

Marquette, MI – 21 Degrees Fahrenheit
Alpena, MI – 20 Degrees Fahrenheit
Bryce Canyon, UT – 14 Degrees Fahrenheit

OCTOBER 14TH

Butte, MT Breaks old record of 13 set in 1969 – 10 Degrees Fahrenheit
Burley, ID Breaks old record of 19 set in 1966 – 15 Degrees Fahrenheit
Jerome, ID – 23 Degrees Fahrenheit

Record low high temp
Glasgow, MT Ties old record set in 1899 and 1981 – 37 Degrees Fahrenheit

OCTOBER 13TH

Grand Canyon, AZ – 36 Degrees Fahrenheit
Salt Lake City, UT – 40 Degrees Fahrenheit
Las Vegas, NV – 62 Degrees Fahrenheit
Joseph, OR ties 1912 record – 21 Degrees Fahrenheit
Monument, OR – 17 Degrees Fahrenheit
Union Es, OR Breaks old record of 17 set in 1969 – 15 Degrees Fahrenheit
Whitman, WA Breaks old record of 22 set in 2002 – 19 Degrees Fahrenheit
Boundary Dam, WA Breaks old record of 21 set in 2002 – 15 Degrees Fahrenheit
Olympia, WA – 28 Degrees Fahrenheit
Quillayute, WA – 29 Degrees Fahrenheit
Tucson, AZ – 38 Degrees Fahrenheit

Tucson shatters old record low
13 Oct 08 – TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HIT 38 DEGREES WHICH SHATTERED THE OLD DAILY RECORD LOW OF 43 DEGREES SET IN 1931. THE LAST TIME TUCSON SET A RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE IN OCTOBER WAS BACK ON OCTOBER 30 1971 WHEN THE MERCURY HIT 26 DEGREES…WHICH IS THE ALL-TIME RECORD LOW FOR OCTOBER.

OCTOBER 12TH

Record low temps in four states:
Meacham, OR – 15 Degrees Fahrenheit
Pendleton, OR – 18 Degrees Fahrenheit
Olympia, WA – 28 Degrees Fahrenheit
Eureka, CA – 36 Degrees Fahrenheit
Seattle, WA – 37 Degrees Fahrenheit
Lewiston, ID Lowest temperature since records began in 1881 – 28 Degrees Fahrenheit
Moses Lake, WA – 26 Degrees Fahrenheit

Record cold highs
Reno, NV – 39 Degrees Fahrenheit
Salt Lake City, UT – 47 Degrees Fahrenheit
Las Vegas, NV – 60 Degrees Fahrenheit

Record snowfall levels as well as earliest snow records have also been measured in numerous areas, including Dodge City, KS, Stevens Pass, Washington, Billings, MT, Boise, and Valdez, AK.

A comparison between the Arctic sea ice extent in 07 and 08:

10/17/2007 5,663,125 square kilometers

10/17/2008 7,436,406 square kilometers

Δice = 1,773,281 sqkm or 31.3% more than last year

Source data here: http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot.csv (Excel file)