How to copy White Balance settings betweenJPG files

Hi all,
Due to a stupid mistake I ran half a day in Joshua Tree National Park with my camera set to only save JPGs instead of RAWs... grrrr.
I have relevant WhiBal shots from this period, but I cannot figure out how to set the white balance on the related shots since the temp scale in the Basic section of the develop module only seems to works with a relative -100 to +100 setting instead of the Kelvin scale normally used in the RAWs.
Any ideas on how to "copy" and/or set the white balance in a JPG based on the adjusted value from another JPG?
Any ideas greatly appreciated!
Claus.

Hi John,
Thanx for the suggestion!
I thought about this and experimented with it. However it seems that when working on JPGs this method just copies any "+nn" adjustment blindly to the target photos without any consideration to differences in the basic color ballance of the target photos.
I guess the problem may basically be that if the JPGs do not have any saved info inside the file on the assumed White Balance in Kelvin used by the in-camera JPG conversion there may be no way to make such a relative adjustment between two JPG files.
So does anybody know whether this info is available in a JPG file converted in cameray? In my case it's a Canon 20d.
Claus.

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