Straight Line of the Day: Feeling cranky? Irritable? Have you consulted your Climate Psychiatrist?

Feeling Cranky? Irritable? You’re Not Alone Amid Widespread Heat Wave
John Murphy | AccuWeather | Jul. 22, 2022

“Almost everybody knows that they get really cranky and really irritated when the heat goes up,” Robin Cooper, the president of Climate Psychiatry Alliance, told AccuWeather National Reporter Kim Leoffler.

“You can’t be in the mindset that, ‘Oh, it’s a heat wave, it’s temporary, I’m just going to get through it.’ No — heat waves can be killers.”

and for the — shall we say, less perceptive? — out there:

“Don’t stay in overheated apartments,” she said.

And now for some hard-hitting reporting, not phoning it in at all:

Larger pets were also cooling off in their own ways, such as a Pembroke Welsh Corgi [“larger”? — ed.] named Fraya in Ontario, Canada. Freya could be seen, in a photo taken by her owner, Jennifer Stuber, after having apparently taken a dip in the cool water along Cherry Beach in Toronto.

“It was her fourth time this summer, twice this week since it has been very warm!” Stuber told AccuWeather.

That’s what you call an in-depth investigation.  In depth.  That’s a joke, son!