Mount Fuji snowless in November for first time in recorded history

Usually it is dusted by mid-October

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When you think of Japan's iconic Mount Fuji, you probably think of it with its winter snowcap. It's not there in summer—and for the first time in 130 years of recorded history, it remains bare into November.

The peaks of Japan's highest mountain are usually dusted in snow by early October, but as of Tuesda…