Local media reported that Japan's Mount Fuji wore its first snowcap this season on Thursday, the latest in 130 years, following unusually warm weather.
The Kofu Local Meteorological Office, which makes the annual official announcement, said officials visually confirmed that the country's tallest peak was dusted with snow at 6.15 a.m. local time, Xinhua news agency reported quoting Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.
The first snow of the year fell on Saturday, after confirmation. This officially defeated the previous records of October 26 set in 1955 and 2016 - the latest since record-keeping began in 1894.
The temperature went as low as minus 8.4 degrees at the summit of the mountain straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures around 7 a.m. local time.
Snow fell in parts of it on Wednesday, but Kofu observatory on Yamanashi side had no snow fall as clouds covered the view.
There was no snow as there was rainfall in October which, marked the highest average temperature ever recorded at the mountaintop.
On average, the first snow fell on Mount Fuji on October 2. The record, however shows that in 2023, the first snow was reported to have fallen on October 5.
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