{"id":9269,"date":"2024-10-30T11:37:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/still-no-snow-on-mount-fuji-forecasters-say-setting-a-new-record\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T11:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:37:57","slug":"still-no-snow-on-mount-fuji-forecasters-say-setting-a-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/still-no-snow-on-mount-fuji-forecasters-say-setting-a-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Still no snow on Mount Fuji, forecasters say \u2013 setting a new record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mount Fuji is yet to see any snow on its slopes this year, with forecasters saying the absence of the white stuff has set a new record.<\/p>\n

The active volcano southwest of Tokyo is the country’s highest peak at 3,776m. It usually sees its first snow of the year in early October.<\/p>\n

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But as of today, there was still no snow on Japan’s highest mountain, Yutaka Katsuta, a forecaster at Kofu Local Meteorological Office, was quoted as saying by AFP.<\/p>\n

Since records began 130 years ago, this is the latest date in a calendar year the iconic mountain has gone without snow.<\/p>\n

The previous record was 26 October in both 1955 and 2016.<\/p>\n

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Last year, the first snow on Japan’s highest peak was seen on 5 October.<\/p>\n

This year, Japan experienced its hottest summer since records began in 1898, Kyodo News+ reported the Japan Meteorological Agency as saying back in September<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Around 200,000 to 300,000 people climb Mount Fuji every summer.<\/p>\n

News of the record-breaking lack of snow comes a day after the United Nations warned global climate action plans are “falling miles short” <\/strong>of what is needed to stop climate change from “crippling” economies.<\/p>\n

Mr Katsuta told AFP global warming<\/strong> may have contributed to the delay in Mount Fuji’s snowfall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n

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Mount Fuji is yet to see any snow on its slopes this year, with forecasters saying the absence of the white stuff has set a new record. The active volcano southwest of Tokyo is the country’s highest peak at 3,776m. It usually sees its first snow of the year in early October. But as of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}