Figure 2 Temperature variation in the study area. Data refer to record of temperature and relative humidity measured every 12 h (one measurement at midday and one at midnight). Top panel: annual trends of temperatures measured at the entrance (0 m; orange line) and inside the mine (10 and 20 m; purple and blue lines, respectively). Bottom panel: mean of monthly positive and negative temperature deviations at night, with respect to the daily temperature recorded during the same period.