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.

Since record-keeping began 130 years ago, Mount Fuji has always acquired its distinctive cap of snow by now. This year, it remains bare.

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.

Mount Fuji is snowless in November for 130 years after unseasonally warm weather in Japan.The lack of snow on the UNESCO World Heritage site, as of Tuesday, breaks the previous record when snow did not arrive until October 16 in 2016.

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 slowest formation of Mount Fuji’s famous snowcap,

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Japan’s most famous landmark, Mount Fuji, is commonly depicted with a pristine snowcap crowning its peak. Yet, this year, as November begins, the iconic mountain remains bare, marking the longest snowless period in 130 years.