Where is Santa now? Track Santa and his sleigh with NORAD; NORAD phone number - AL.com

Good small girls and boys from astir the satellite are asking the question everyone wants to know: When volition Santa get to my house?

It’s a bully happening NORAD – the North American Aerospace Defense Command – has things nether control.

For  67 years, NORAD has utilized its blase exertion to way Santa arsenic helium makes his planetary travel connected Christmas Eve. They volition commencement tracking Santa astatine 5 a.m. CST connected Dec. 24.  You tin telephone 1 877 HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723) to speech straight to a NORAD unit subordinate who volition beryllium capable to archer you Santa’s nonstop location. Operators are disposable until midnight.

You tin besides nonstop an email to noradtrackssanta@outlook.com. You tin besides way Santa connected your mobile phone, done the authoritative Windows 8 app online astatine https://www.noradsanta.org/en/

You tin spot much of Santa’s travel and what is going connected astatine the North Pole astatine www.noradsanta.org.

NORAD typically received much than 111,000 calls from 200 countries connected Christmas Eve and answers immoderate 12,000 emails. Corporate sponsors ft the measure for the Santa Tracker and nary taxation dollars are utilized successful the program.

When volition Santa beryllium astatine my location connected Christmas?

According to NORAD, Santa usually starts his travel astatine the International Date Line successful the Pacific Ocean and travels west, visiting the South Pacific archetypal past New Zealand and Australia. After that, helium shoots up to Japan, implicit to Asia past onto occidental Europe, Canada, the United States and Mexico and Central and South America.

“Keep successful mind, Santa’s way tin beryllium affected by the weather, truthful it’s truly unpredictable. NORAD coordinates with Santa’s Elf Launch Staff to corroborate his motorboat tine but from that constituent one, Santa calls the shots. We conscionable way him!” NORAD said.

NORAD officials said portion the nonstop clip is chartless it appears Santa arrives lone erstwhile children are asleep, mostly betwixt 9 p.m. and midnight section time.

What astir the weather?

Officials are NORAD said they bash not expect the existent upwind – including the weaponry cyclone – to impede Santa.

Here’s what we cognize astir Santa and his sleigh, according to NORAD:

• Santa’s sleigh was designed and built by K. Kringle and Elves, Inc. and it’s believed the archetypal formation was Dec. 24, 343 A.D.
• The sleigh is based successful the North Pole and is 77 candy canes long, 40 candy canes wide and 55 candy canes heigh.
• Its value astatine takeoff was 75,000 gumdrops, which includes 260 pounds of Santa Claus.
• Santa’s sleigh is capable to clasp 60,000 tons of presents, each pulled by 9 reindeer fueled by hay, oats and carrots. Santa’s reindeer are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph.
• Best of each is the statement of its max velocity – it’s faster than starlight, according to subject experts.