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Nude photos of Mt. Fuji circulate online as powerful typhoon removes snow from the peak【Photos】

Japan’s tallest mountain loses its icy top covering as storm blows through eastern Japan.

Close your eyes and picture Mt. Fuji. Even if you’ve never been to Japan, odds are you can still form a mental picture of the country’s highest mountain, with its graceful curved sides, flat-topped crater, and a ring of snow around the majestic peak.

Except, right now Mt. Fuji can only claim two of those distinguishing characteristics. With the weather getting progressively colder in Japan, Mt. Fuji has been seasonably snow-topped for a while, and got its first major snowfall of the season on October 23.

▼ The view on October 26

【雪の帽子】富士山、今シーズン初の雪化粧姿を披露https://t.co/eZXiGMda4R

23日に初冠雪を観測した富士山ですが、麓からしっかりと雪化粧した富士山の姿を見ることができたのは今季初となります。 pic.twitter.com/qbQsthBRIx

— ライブドアニュース (@livedoornews) October 25, 2017

やっぱり紅葉には雪のある富士山がお似合いだね☺️🗻 #富士山 #紅葉 pic.twitter.com/5BqN6AJvrP

— とにかく凄い富士山撮る人🗻橋向 真 (@MakotoHashimuki) October 26, 2017

However, a typhoon swept through eastern Japan last weekend. Warm air currents at high altitude kept overnight temperatures on Fuji’s peak above freezing even as the area was pounded with wind and rain, and the result was that all of the snow was blown or washed away.

1000RT：【雪化粧が…】富士山、台風22号の通過で白帽子なくなるhttps://t.co/Qb8HnLObAg

上空に暖かな空気が流れ込んだため、積もっていた雪の大部分が融けてしまったとのこと。再び雪化粧をするのはしばらく先になりそうだ。 pic.twitter.com/6ZGz1HR7CN

— ライブドアニュース (@livedoornews) October 30, 2017

While the amount of snow on Mt. Fuji varies throughout the year, it’s unusual for the peak to be so lacking in frozen regalia in late October.

昨日の台風の激しい土砂降りで

富士山の雪がとけて消えてしまいました。 pic.twitter.com/xKmhduh9ld

— くろほとき (@rsm60038) October 30, 2017

雪のないレア富士山！ pic.twitter.com/2Wa8EPQ0S3

— 松下 (@ok2serebu) October 30, 2017

Due to its size, meteorological conditions can vary from one face of Fuji to the next. This photo, taken in Yamanashi Prefecture’s Fujiyoshida City, for example, shows a bit of slush high on the mountain.

黄葉した富士山。今朝の富士山は雪もまばらです。 pic.twitter.com/rzHVtJ9kfD

— take (@tenkunofuji) October 29, 2017

From other angles, though, Fuji is looking practically naked.

今日の富士山
広い範囲で
白く成っていた雪が
すっかり溶けて居ます

週の初め
何時もと変わらず
何も無く過ぎた一日
そんな一日に感謝して
明日も一歩一歩
自分の中の
積み重ね🍀

【2017/10/30夕方富士山と月】 pic.twitter.com/oYWL40gAmU

— ぺペロンチーノ (@pesca1128) October 30, 2017

Luckily for all those longing to see Mt. Fuji in its most iconic form, typhoons become less and less common as we get further into fall, so it shouldn’t be long before the highest point in Japan is ringed in white once again.

Source: Livedoor News via Jin

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