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 Oct. 2 on average, and last year snow was first observed by government meteorologists on Oct. 5.
The national weather agency — which compares conditions in exactly the same location in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, each year — has not yet announced a new record for the slowest start to the snowcap, due to cloud cover at its monitoring station.
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