Mount Fuji Snowless For Longest Time In 130 Years

Depressing.Mounting DoomDon’t panic, but Japan’s Mount Fuji has officially gone all of October without any snow, CNN reports, making it the longest period — and counting! — that the mountain has been snowless since records began 130 years ago.Typically, Mount Fuji’s peak should’ve already been donning its iconic snowcap for weeks by now. On average, the mountain, which is the tallest in Japan, begins to form snowcaps on October 2, and last year, it started on October 5. But as of November 1 — or November 2 in Japan, which is…

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