To put it bluntly, stop over-thinking it.
As long as you are confident that your temperatures are accurate, your snake can choose for itself how best to meet its needs. It's funny to me how both responses above only refer to thermoregulation as needing to move to a different location, when it doesn't mean that at all. Thermoregulation is nothing more than their ability to keep their body temperature within certain boundaries (they can actually control the flow of their own blood). There isn't a single moment when they aren't thermoregulating. If they need to increase their temperature, they will. If they need to increase their temperature, they will. They're perfectly capable of these things and will do what they need to do to get it done.
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