At 3,776 meters, the active volcano southwest of Tokyo is the highest point in the nation. Early October typically brings the year’s first snowfall.
However, according to news, forecaster Yutaka Katsuta of the Kofu Local Meteorological Office stated that as of today, Japan’s highest mountain was still snow-free.
This is the latest date in a calendar year that the famous mountain has been snow-free since records have been kept 130 years ago.
In 1955 and 2016, the previous record was set on October 26.
Every summer, between 200,000 and 300,000 people ascend Mount Fuji.
A day after the United Nations warned that global climate action plans are “falling miles short” of what is required to prevent climate change from “crippling” economies, news broke of the record-breaking absence of snow.
According to Mr. Katsuta, the delay in the snowfall on Mount Fuji could have been caused in part by global warming.
