Mount Fuji is but to see any snow on its slopes this yr, with forecasters saying the absence of the white stuff has set a brand new document.
The energetic volcano southwest of Tokyo is the nation’s highest peak at 3,776m. It normally sees its first snow of the yr in early October.
However as of immediately, there was nonetheless no snow on Japan’s highest mountain, Yutaka Katsuta, a forecaster at Kofu Native Meteorological Workplace, was quoted as saying by AFP.
Since information started 130 years in the past, that is the most recent date in a calendar yr the enduring mountain has gone with out snow.
The earlier document was 26 October in each 1955 and 2016.
Final yr, the primary snow on Japan’s highest peak was seen on 5 October.
Round 200,000 to 300,000 folks climb Mount Fuji each summer time.
Mr Katsuta informed AFP international warming might have contributed to the delay in Mount Fuji’s snowfall.
