In the latest edition of Living France (Oct) there is a very good feature on the area which includes temperature, etc information. After five years of searching we purchased our house (two years ago) in the CM simply because of the micro climate and sunshine hours. I have just looked at the forecast for this week and temps remain at 22/25deg with plenty of sunshine. Additionally it is not an area which seems to be (yet!) overun by Brits. PeterD