Competing weather forecasts: sexy NWS vs. old school News-Miner
15 May 2005--More data! Ground temp on an upswing. I must be missing a good spring, darn it.
1 May 2005--Back from China, the first thing Jenny cannot wait to do is to take septic data. Good on ya, mate. Will this be the local minimum? Wait a month and see.
18 April 2005---Greetings from Wellington, New Zealand. Kudos to Jenny for taking monthly data while I hang in the warmth. Interesting that the trend looks identical this year as last. Last year was warm with little snow, this year was very cold with a lot of snow.
20 March 2004---I just returned from 5 weeks away. Thanks to Carl and Sarah for watching the house and taking all-important data. Now, we watch the race for spring versus the underground cold. 20 below last night and 40 above tomorrow. Go see the ice art before it melts away.
3 February 2004---I am officially worried.
25 January 2004---Added new wires to make data taking easier and much more fun. Calibration seemed fine at the time though a few hours later all temps seemed a tad warmer. Good enough for this field, though.
19 January 2004---The far corner of the leach field has the least amount of insulation around it, as it sits at the corner of the mound. Heat is lost through the top and the two sides close to it. All of the other points are either interior or near one side. The two coldest thermistors are at that corner. The ones to watch where the blockage occurred last year are the black and red thermistors. They are on the line that connects the lift station to the leach field.
My friends in the glaciology department tell me that the temperatures hover around freezing because of the extra energy needed in the phase change from liquid to solid. It looks like the far corner has passed that point and will continue to get colder. At some point I expect that to happen to the rest of the field. The $285 tank pumping question is: When?
Kind of suspenseful, is it not?