Fuji Finally Dusted With Snow On November 5th - Longest Snow-Free Period On Record

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A screen grab taken from a live video stream broadcast by the Shizuoka Municipal Government on Wednesday shows Mount Fuji with a dusting of snow on its peak, seen from the Shizuoka side of the mountain. | AFP-Jiji

Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, images showed Wednesday, after warm weather led to the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with bare slopes. The volcano's famous snowcap begins forming on Oct. 2 on average, and last year snow was first observed by government meteorologists on Oct. 5.

The national weather agency — which compares conditions in exactly the same location in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, each year — has not yet announced a new record for the slowest start to the snowcap, due to cloud cover at its monitoring station. But this year already marks the latest arrival of snow since comparative data became available in 1894, beating the previous record of October 26 — seen twice, in 1955 and 2016.

Photographs taken from different points around the active volcano, where the skies were clearer early on Wednesday, showed a covering of snow on its peak. "These are photos of Mount Fuji, seen from the city hall this morning. We could see a thin layer of snow cover near the summit," said a post on the official X account of the city of Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture.

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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/06/japan/mount-fuji-snow/