Josh - Here is the URL for the National Weather Service's page for the area including Mt. Whitney. There is no weather instrument/observation station on Whitney itself.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/wrhq/TotalForecast.csh?TotalForecast+WR+CA+026+027Then, here is the URL for the temperature for the past 10 days at nearby Cottonwood Lakes (10,500').
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryLonger?459Next, here is the URL for the national radar loop from the National Weather Service (very helpful to see what precipitation is coming and from where -- I opted for the national radar loop because the Whitney area is in kind-of a local radar viewing black hole):
http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/mosaic.loop/DS.p19r0/ar.us.conus.shtmlAnd finally, here is the URL for the western U.S. satellite loop from the National Weather Service:
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/images/wcirloop.gifOne or more of these should be helpful in seeing what is coming to Whitney and/or in seeing the temperature trend.
CaT
PS - Here's a really cool freebie for everyone's viewing pleasure -- the URL to one of Environment Canada's global view satellite images. You'll enjoy this one if you've never seen it! Environment Canada is the Canadian equivalent of the USA's National Weather Service. Below the image, you can select how many frames you want to include in a loop, and then above the image, click "play" and watch it go. There is a large version of this same image, but it's only a still shot without the ability to play a loop; so I opted to provide the medium size image here, because watching it loop is pretty cool:
http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/satellite/...ges=1&clf=1(the above is all one very long URL)
