World Wide Snow and Ice Cover Map: October 19th, 2014: The Antarctic ice starts to melt. In South America there is almost no difference to be seen, whereas the Arcitc ice grew distinctly since last month. And in North America and above all in Siberia we have already a big area that is snow covered. Iceland, Scandinavia and the Himalaya region as well show much more snow than in mid September 2014.
Thank you for the picture from http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/