TOKYO: Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, images showed Wednesday (Nov 6), after warm weather led to the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with bare slopes. The volcano's famous snowcap begins formi

Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, photographs shared by local authorities and residents showed Wednesday, after the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with bare slopes. The national weather agency -- which compares conditions in exactly the same location each year -- has not yet announced a new record for the…

Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, photographs shared by local authorities and residents showed, after the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with bare slopes.

TOKYO: Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, images showed Wednesday (Nov 6), after warm weather led to the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with bare slopes. The volcano's famous snowcap begins formi

Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, images showed Wednesday, after warm weather led to the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with bare slopes. The volcano's famous snowcap begins forming on October 2 on average, and last year snow was first observed by government meteorologists on October 5. Japan's weather agency…

Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, images showed Wednesday, after warm weather led to the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with bare slopes.

Mount Fuji, the country’s tallest summit, is revered for its snowy peak. A snowfall reported on Wednesday ended its longest snowless period in 130 years.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's iconic Mount Fuji, known for its snowcap forming around this time of the year, is still snowless in November for the first time in 130 years, presumably because of the unusually warm temperatures in the past few weeks.The lack of snow on Mt. Fuji, a UNESCO World Heritage site, as of Tuesday breaks the previous record set on Oct. 26, 2016, meteorological officials said.Usually, the 3,776-meter- (nearly 12,300-foot-) high mountain has sprinkles of snow falling on its summit starting Oct. 2, about a month after the summertime hiking season there ends. Last year, snow fell on the mountain on Oct. 5, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, or JMA.The snowless Mt. Fuji has captured attention on social media. People posted photos showing the bare mountain, some expressing surprise and others concerned over climate change.The JMA's Kofu Local Meteorological Office, which keeps weather data in central Japan and was the agency that announced the first snowfall on Mt. Fuji in 1894, has cited October's…

Late snowfall on iconic Mt. Fuji sparks climate change concerns, breaking records and delaying official confirmation.

The snow, which fell across areas of the Eastern Cape province, comes less than two months after even more severe falls in the adjacent KwaZulu-Natal.