Courtesy of the Northeast Regional Climate Center [1]. Because the weather on Tuesday was just THAT sh*tty.
Highest recorded wind speed in Ithaca proper today: 36.2 MPH, around 4 PM. [2]
Highest wind gust, annually: about 60 MPH.
Highest recorded in area, ever: 84 MPH, from 1972.
Last time measurable snow occured in October: October 31, 1993. 3.7 inches. Prior to that, there were measurable snows in October 1988 (which had the most October snow recorded, at 6.5 inches) and October 1982; it was more common back in the day.
Most snow ever recorded from a single storm: 21 inches, in 1961. An unofficial record of 25.5 inches is claimed for January 1925 [3]. (for the record, most snow ever recorded in my hometown: 43.1 inches, in 1966).
Average amount of snow in a year: 67 inches.
Most snow ever recorded in Ithaca in a single season: 122.2, in the winter of 1977-78.
High on this day last year (2007): 63. Low was 40. Sunny.
Tuesday’s high: 38. Low 32. Not sunny.
Warmest October on record: October 2007: 7.8 degrees above normal.
Average temperature on a given October day in Ithaca: About 48 degrees (high 59, low 37).
Warmest October day ever recorded in Ithaca: 91, in 1953.
Coldest October day ever recorded in Ithaca: 15, in 1928.
Highest high ever recorded: 103, in July 1936.
Lowest low: -35, in February 1961.
[1]http://www.nrcc.cornell.edu/
[2]http://www.nrcc.cornell.edu/climate/ithaca/gfr_logger.html
[3]http://books.google.com/books?id=jUu9pDRhWjkC&pg=PA452&lpg=PA452&dq=lowest+snowfall+ever+ithaca+winter&source=web&ots=Mp__5eVss3&sig=j8j3mD5FbCx1OR2ussPMRm_zAyY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result
Ithacating in Cornell Heights 
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