Uh, so there's no toggle?
I installed the mod and loaded a save game. I re-saved and restarted Factorio but see no thermometer. I rebuilt the heating tower to try to troubleshoot, but that's not it.
However I'm using quite a bit of other mods, including Any Planet Start. I suppose the early-game access to the heating tower may be a different entity than the normally-researched heating tower.
Oh -- the thermometer probably loads itself when actually taking a rocket to Aquilo, which didn't happen since I started here on Aquilo (Any Planet Start)!
I took a look at the lua but can't confirm my suspicion.