Track Santa from home

In addition, we now track Santa using the internet. Santa’s journey can also be followed at noradsanta.org.

NORAD’s also offering a look at the North Pole, Christmas music and more.

Visit the website NORAD Tracks Santa and your family can watch as he moves toward your home.

The tradition carried on when NORAD took over in 1958.

In the early days (as well as today) volunteers staffed phone banks at NORAD, fielding thousands of Christmas Eve calls each year.

If you don’t want to sit in front of a computer, NORAD also has apps for iOS, Android and Windows.

The tracking starts at 2 a.m. December 24. Santa calls the shots, NORAD says on its website.

The tradition all started in 1955 when a local media advertisement directed children to call Santa direct-only the number was misprinted.

Details about Santa’s location are anxiously sought by everyone looking to prepare the milk and cookies just in time for Santa’s arrival. (AP) – Peterson Air Force base is getting ready for its annual holiday mission – tracking Santa’s storybook sleigh ride around the world.

– Can you put my brother on the naughty list? For instance, in the countdown to the big day, Cortana reveals that Santa is hitting the North Pole barber for a beard trim, trimming reindeer hooves, and making cocoa with tiny marshmallows for the elves.

“We get a lot of calls from Europe, Australia and New Zealand”, said NORAD’s Stacey Knott.

NORAD’s normal job is to defend the skies and monitor sea approaches for both the USA and Canada.

Colonel Harry Shoup was duty that night, who has become well known as “Santa Colonel”, received many calls that night requesting to know about Santa.

And that’s why the Santa Tracker is available – to keep tabs on the jolly guy. We do, however, know from history that it appears he arrives only when children are asleep!

Weather-permitting, children in the United Kingdom may catch an early glimpse of “Santa’s sleigh” around 5.20pm on Christmas Eve when the International Space Station (ISS), whose crew includes English astronaut Major Tim Peake, passes over the Britain. He returns later…but only when the children are asleep!