On average, there are 280 sunny days per year in Avra Valley, Arizona. The July high is around 104 degrees. The January low is 38. Sperling's comfort index for Avra Valley is a 76 out of 100, where a higher score indicates a more comfortable year-around climate. The US average for the comfort index is 54.
He was buried in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery. His wife, Caroline Mary Cooke Whipple (no dates on stone), is buried with him. His son, Herbert Sydney Whipple (also no dates on the stone), Major, United States Army, is also buried in this site.
He continued with Thomas after the war, until the latter's death in San Francisco in 1870, when Whipple was appointed Aide-de-Camp to General William T. Sherman, the General-in-Chief of the Army, a capacity which he served in for five years.