Most of the stations worked well through the winter. The thermometer at the Tantalus Creek station was clearly broken, since for several months it had been registering temperatures below zero Celsius in flowing liquid water. That sensor was replaced and is now functioning normally. The only station that was completely offline through the winter was, unfortunately, the one monitoring Steamboat geyser. Happily, however, upgrades to the equipment there revived the sensor, and it is now operational once again, providing temperature data showing water eruptions of the geyser. Hopefully, strong torrents of water issuing from the geyser during future eruptions won’t sweep the thermometer away.

All Norris temperature data is available on the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory monitoring map (zoom in to the Norris area and select one of the thermometer symbols for data plots) or from the individual station pages accessible from the Norris temperature network homepage.