{"id":5649,"date":"2024-10-29T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/still-no-snow-on-mount-fuji-forecasters-say-setting-a-new-record\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:00:43","slug":"still-no-snow-on-mount-fuji-forecasters-say-setting-a-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/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":"<p>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<p>The active volcano southwest of Tokyo is the country\u2019s highest peak at 3,776m. It usually sees its first snow of the year in early October.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>But as of today, there was still no snow on Japan\u2019s highest mountain, Yutaka Katsuta, a forecaster at Kofu Local Meteorological Office, was quoted as saying by AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Since records began 130 years ago, this is the latest date in a calendar year the iconic mountain has gone without snow.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record was 26 October in both 1955 and 2016.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Last year, the first snow on Japan\u2019s highest peak was seen on 5 October.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Japan experienced its hottest summer since records began in 1898, Kyodo News+ reported the Japan Meteorological Agency as saying <strong>back in September<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Around 200,000 to 300,000 people climb Mount Fuji every summer.<\/p>\n<p>News of the record-breaking lack of snow comes a day after the United Nations warned global climate action plans <strong>are \u201cfalling miles short\u201d <\/strong>of what is needed to stop climate change from \u201ccrippling\u201d economies.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Katsuta told AFP <strong>global warming<\/strong> may have contributed to the delay in Mount Fuji\u2019s snowfall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Fuji is yet to see any snow on its slopes this year, with forecasters&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}