Table 2. Spearman’s Correlation Matrix.

Climate variables	Mean maximum temperature	Mean minimum temperature	Highest maximum temperature	Lowest minimum temperature	Total mean rain fall	Heaviest rainfall in 24 hours	Number of rainy days	Mean wind speed	Mean relative humidity at 8.30 am	Mean relative humidity at 5.30 pm
mean maximum temperature	1	0.8940	0.9011	0.8766	0.5208	0.5470	0.4039	-0.6815	0.5128	0.4708
mean minimum temperature	0.8940	1	0.9179	0.9735	0.7738	0.7289	0.6802	-0.8365	0.7730	0.6382
highest maximum temperature	0.9011	0.9179	1	0.8918	0.7052	0.6774	0.6189	-0.7435	0.6570	0.5216
lowest minimum temperature	0.8766	0.9735	0.8918	1	0.7660	0.7317	0.6602	-0.8425	0.7591	0.6655
total mean rain fall	0.5208	0.7738	0.7052	0.7660	1	0.9155	0.9216	-0.7983	0.9021	0.6327
heaviest rainfall in 24 hours	0.5470	0.7289	0.6774	0.7317	0.9155	1	0.8301	-0.7517	0.7970	0.6187
number of rainy days	0.4039	0.6802	0.6189	0.6602	0.9216	0.8301	1	-0.7292	0.8745	0.5700
mean wind speed	-0.6815	-0.8365	-0.7435	-0.8425	-0.7983	-0.7517	-0.7292	1	-0.8421	-0.7948
mean relative humidity at 8.30 am	0.5128	0.7730	0.6570	0.7591	0.9021	0.7970	0.8745	-0.8421	1	0.7266
mean relative humidity at 5.30 pm	0.4708	0.6382	0.5216	0.6655	0.6327	0.6187	0.5700	-0.7948	0.7266	1