What is the biggest temperature variation you have heard of in one town? A few days ago, I saw a copy of the âTidBitsâ paper in Milton-Freewater. It had a very interesting article on the Arctic and mentioned that a town in Russia called Verkhoyansk had the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic â minus 89.9 degrees. And then, in 2020, that same town recorded a temperature of 100.4 degrees. That is a high/low variance in one place of 190 degrees. The article also noted that the 100-degree temperature set an all-time record for the Arctic, âalarming meteorologists worldwide.â Another interesting statistic said if all Arctic ice melted, sea level would rise 23 feet. And if all Antarctic ice melted, global sea level would rise 197 feet, a combined total of 220 feet of sea-level rise.