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Home World Still No Snow On Japan’s Mount Fuji, Breaking Record

Still No Snow On Japan’s Mount Fuji, Breaking Record

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Japan’s Mount Fuji remained snow-less as of Monday — the newest date that its majestic slopes have been naked since information started 130 years in the past, the climate company stated.

The volcano’s snowcap begins forming on October 2 on common, and final 12 months snow was first detected there on October 5.

However due to heat climate, this 12 months no snowfall has but been noticed on Japan’s highest mountain, stated Yutaka Katsuta, a forecaster at Kofu Native Meteorological Workplace.

That marks the newest date since comparative knowledge grew to become out there in 1894, he stated beating the earlier report of October 26 — seen twice, in 1955 after which in 2016.

“Temperatures have been excessive this summer time, and these excessive temperatures continued into September, deterring chilly air” which brings snow, Katsuta informed AFP.

He agreed that local weather change could have a level of impression on the delay within the snowcap’s formation.

Japan’s summer time this 12 months was the joint hottest on report — equalling the extent seen in 2023 — as excessive heatwaves fuelled by local weather change engulfed many components of the globe.

Mount Fuji is roofed in snow for a lot of the 12 months, however in the course of the July-September mountaineering season, greater than 220,000 guests trudge up its steep, rocky slopes.

Many climb via the evening to see the dawn from the three,776-metre (12,388-foot) summit.

Fewer climbers tackled Mount Fuji this 12 months nevertheless after Japanese authorities launched an entry charge and a day by day cap on numbers to battle overtourism.

The symmetrical mountain has been immortalised in numerous artworks, together with Hokusai’s “Nice Wave”.

It final erupted round 300 years in the past.

(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)


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