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Can anyone point me to a resource for finding the historic weather for Whitney Portal or the summit for the months of September and October? Thanks for whatever assistance you can be.

No official records are kept for either place. The nearest weather station to the Portal is the CA Dept of Water Resources' station's located around Cottonwood Lakes. Cottonwood Lakes is south of the Portal.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?CWD


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Anyone know a site with historical Whitney Portal or Whitney summit weather information? Thanks for whatever attention you can give this.

Hi Barkley, since there is no weather station on the Whitney Summit, it is impossible to keep a log of the weather.

September and October weather on Whitney can be clear and dry, but occasional storms come through, especially the later in that period you go. And there is no specific period when the storms can be predicted at all, except for a few days in advance.

It sounds like you are planning a visit, so the best advice is to watch the forecasts (see the Weather Links above on the left) the few days before you come. If anything is predicted, I'd stay home.

It appears Whitney is having some unsettled weather at this time. Snow level around 13k, and there is significant cloud cover. I'm in Fresno, northwest of the summit, and there was a very unusual heavy overcast here all day.

The trip reports from people on the trail tonight will be quite interesting.

George Carlin’s character Al Sleet, The Hippy Dippy Weatherman, can give a historically correct forecast as requested. It is as follows:

“Tonight’s forecast; dark. Continued dark tonight, turning to partly light in the morning.”

Al left forecasting because he had given his last forecast. This was known as the Ultimate Forecast, “The weather will continue to change, on and off, for a long, long time.”