" ("Weather" refers to the conditions in the skies) I believe that in 2012, most people use either word interchangeably in your kind of sentence: I asked you if/whether you had been there. If you like to follow rules (as do I), you should use "whether" for noun clauses, such as: I asked you whether you .... I want to know whether you did it or not.
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