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Health and weather officials reminded Arkansans over the past weeks to prepare for the onslaught of summer.

Indeed, it has arrived.

The heat index in central Arkansas last week neared 100 degrees and meteorologist Chuck Rickard of the National Weather Service office in North Little Rock said high temperatures would probably be in the low to mid 90s for the rest of July and into August.

Ten people died in Arkansas from heat-related causes last year, and the state has averaged 9.3 deaths per year over the past decade, Arkansas Health Department spokesman Ed Ba...