  We use scanning tunneling microscopy to study the temperature evolution of
the atomic-scale properties of the nearly-commensurate charge density wave
(NC-CDW) state of the low-dimensional material, 1T-TaS$_2$. Our measurements at
203 K, 300 K, and 354 K, roughly spanning the temperature range of the NC-CDW
state, show that while the average CDW periodicity is temperature independent,
domaining and the local evolution of the CDW lattice within a domain is
temperature dependent. Further, we characterize the temperature evolution of
the displacement field associated with the recently-discovered intradomain
chirality of the NC-CDW state by calculating the local rotation vector.
Intradomain chirality throughout the NC-CDW phase is likely driven by a strong
coupling of the CDW lattice to the atomic lattice.
