 In northern and north-eastern France the departure from the normal of the average temperature was as high as 5 °C (9 °F).May was too very warm making the spring 2007 the warmest in recorded history for some regions.Like the rest of Western Europe, August 2006 saw a dramatic turnaround, being a cloudy and wet month in many parts with daytime maxima below average – although the Central England Temperature (CET) was close to the long-term average, due to the cloud keeping night minima higher than normal.