Warmest ridge of alltime?

I'm not sure you where even a sperm in '58!

Maybe a twinkle in my dad's eye?

Despite my age I don't remember the dinosaurs all that well. I was thinking more of the warmest and highest amplitude ridge in memory.

Boy are we ever snakebit - it's awfully tough to get much new snow.

Noodling around at WRCC and NWS , i can find nothing directly related to the high pressure system other than by expression of temperature. WRCC has for Ranier/Paradise 1948-2007:

avg temp - Dec 27.1 Jan 26.4 Feb 27.9

avg max temp - Dec 32.9 Jan 32 Feb 34

for 2009, NWS has avg temp there of 28.3 for January and an avg max of 34.5 - sure seemed warmer than that on occassion. However, telemetry shows 50% of the data is missing so likely, the avg max temp really was higher.

The NWS NOWdata page for Paradise from 1916 - 2009 does not put Jan 2009 avg temp or avg max temp in the top ten - it would have to average higher than 57...