Apart from real perennial classics from bygone times, like
Phew what a Scorcher
as Temperatures Soar into the Nineties
I recall a spoof headline in Private eye, that remains my favourite:
Elderly Horologist Savaged by Heat-crazed Vole
The perfection of this is hard to analyse.
For more, do consult my roundup of the headlines tag. And for a meteorological joke, see here.
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