NORAD Santa Tracker 2024 LIVE - follow Father Christmas on his sleigh around the world
dailyrecord.co.ukWith just one more sleep to go until Santa Claus and his merry reindeer arrive, anticipations around the world are high. Father Christmas is preparing to leave the North Pole to fly from continent to continent with a sack full of presents for boys and girls across the globe.
As Saint Nicholas makes his way through his list, parents and children have been invited to track his journey. NORAD's Santa Tracker app goes live from 11am and will run right up until his last drop-off.Here's everything you need to know if you want to track Santa this year:Each day of the year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) tracks everything that flies above the skies of Canada and the United States.
But on Christmas Eve, the command centre also takes on the very special mission of monitoring Santa's progress around the world, making sure he has every single present placed under the tree by morning.NORAD offers a sneak peek into not only where Santa is, but how many presents he's delivered.
Of course, Santa sets off from his home in the North Pole before making his huge trek across the world. It's said he visits 390,000 homes per minute - a whopping 6.424 per second.His first stop of the evening is the boys and girls of the Republic of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean.
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