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       Mount Fuji with its peak covered with a light dusting of snow is seen in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter above the Yamanashi Prefecture village of Narusawa on Sept. 7, 2021. (Mainichi/Hiroshi Maruyama)

       KOFU -- Mount Fuji was seen snowcapped for the first time this season, the local meteorological office in this central Japan city announced on Sept. 7. The spectacle came 25 days earlier than normal and 21 days earlier than last year.

       According to the Kofu Local Meteorological Office, there was a clear sky early in the morning of Sept. 7, and at around 5:30 a.m., a staff member confirmed visually that the area around the top of the 3,776-meter peak was slightly blanketed in white.

       By 8:10 a.m. on that day, the lowest temperature near the summit was minus 3.1 degrees Celsius. The Fujiyoshida Municipal Government in Yamanashi Prefecture and other local governments at the base of the mountain had received reports of snow on the summit since the day before, but clouds blocked observations from the city of Kofu, where the meteorological observatory is located.

       The earliest first snowcap since observations began in 1894 was on Aug. 9, 2008, and the latest was on Oct. 26, 2016.

       (Japanese original by Yusuke Tanabe, Kofu Bureau)

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