The above diagram helps show that if a station were removed from the record or did not report data for some period of time, the average anomaly would not change significantly, whereas the overall average temperature could change significantly, depending on which station dropped out of the record. (noaanews.noaa.gov)
The overall average temperature in October is a hot 29 °C, so there's nothing really to complain about. (holiday-weather.com)
As we have seen, there are bad climate scientists who rig the computer models representing a huge rise in the Earth's overall average temperature and there are good climate scientists who have waged a long and increasingly successful effort to debunk the greatest hoax of the modern era. (cfact.org)