MMTS (meteorology)

A Maximum Minimum Temperature System or MMTS is a temperature recording system that keeps track of the maximum and minimum temperatures that have occurred over some given time period. [cite web
url=http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lbf/?n=measuring_temperature
title=Measuring Temperature
publisher=National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (USA)
date=2006-08-09
accessdate=2008-05-24]

The earliest, and still perhaps most familiar, form is the Maximum minimum thermometer invented by James Six in 1782.

Today a typical MMTS is a thermistor. [cite web
url=http://www.eis.noaa.gov/gcos/soc_long.pdf
title=U.S. National Report on Systematic Observations for Climate
publisher=NOAA
accessdate=2008-05-25] This may be read locally or can transmit its results electronically.

References

ee also

* SNOTEL