Mt Fuji snow finally falling after long absence


Welcome sight of white: Mt. Fuji covered in snow on Nov 6. — AP

Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, images showed, 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.

Japan’s weather agency – which compares conditions from exactly the same location, Kofu City, 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 Oct 26 – seen twice, in 1955 and 2016.

Photographs taken from different points around Japan’s highest mountain where the skies were clearer early yesterday showed a dusting 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 Fuji City, in Japan’s central Shizuoka region.

Many others in the area also posted their own photographs of snow on the country’s highest mountain, and aerial footage from national broadcaster NHK showed close-ups of white powder on the rocky slopes.

A Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) official at the Kofu office said yesterday morning it was still too cloudy there to declare a new record.

That was still the case in the afternoon. — AFP

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