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Snow fell on the top of the symbol of Japan only on November 7. Usually it is covered with a white cap as early as October.
Global warming has also reached Mount Fuji in Japan. Only today, November 7, snow appeared on its top, giving it a grand appearance that Japanese people and tourists love to photograph. Reuters writes about it.
Japan's venerable Mount Fuji (or Fuji-san) finally regained its legendary snow cap on Thursday, setting a record for the slowest snowfall in 130 years, the weather agency said.
The mountain reached its annual milestone on October 5 last year, making this year's snowpack the latest since 1894, when the phenomenon was first recorded.
Staff at the Kofu Observatory office, which annually announces the news, saw snow near the summit of the country's highest volcano at 3776m on Thursday morning, the office said.
Fuji's "first snowfall" is defined as when all or part of the mountain is covered in snow or "solid white precipitation," the office added, and can be seen from the observatory for the first time since summer.
According to Mamoru Matsumoto of the Kofu Observatory office, the first snowfall on Mount Fuji has been delayed in recent years, although the reasons for this are still unclear.
“I'm relieved to finally see snow. The temperature at Mt.Fuji has been high since October, so I could foresee quite a long delay in snowfall, and that gave me an uneasy feeling," he added.
According to official figures, the unseasonably warm weather resulted in no precipitation in October and an average peak temperature of 1,6 degrees Celsius, compared to the previous year's October average of -2 degrees Celsius.
Japan's hottest summer this year saw the country's average temperature from June to August rise 1,76 degrees Celsius above normal.
