<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 10.00.9200.16660"></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>Looks like these spikes happen anywhere from zero times per day (two multi-day episodes in the past month) to once or twice per day. And since 1) Whirligig is known to have erupted on the date of one of the spikes; and 2) somebody earlier this season mentioned seeing some sort of "abortedc" eruption by Whirligig, I shall posit that those spikes are indeed caused by Whirligig. (</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>A ground squirrel is somewhat less likely, but don't discount those pesky bears.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 8/22/2013 6:48:19 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jakefrisbee@yahoo.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman"> In the attached graph, you can see the temperature spike at about 1500 on July 29, 2013.  There is a Geysertimes.org report of Whirligig Geyser at 2005 ie on July 29 from Craig Munson.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>