How NORAD"s Santa Tracker tradition got started
If you"ve been tracking Santa tonight you know two things -- he"s over the United States, and you better get to sleep fast.
Children throughout the world have been following Santa Claus on the Google Santa Tracker and the Norad Santa Tracker 2014 today, and the latest radar reports have St. Nick and his sleigh getting closer to the United States.
NORAD tracked Santa on radar near Augusta, Maine at 10:04 p.m. and then on to Atlanta and further south to Birmingham sometime before midnight Christmas Eve.
You can follow Santa"s progress on the NORAD Santa Tracker 2014 here and the Google Santa Tracker here.
As of late Wednesday, Santa had delivered 5,215,694,793 presents to children in cities including London, England, Marseille, France and Kingston, Jamaica, according to the NORAD Santa Tracker 2014.
At 9:50 p.m. (CT) NORAD had a visual of Santa as he left Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
While Santa is on everyone"s radar tonight, the North American Aerospace Defense Command -- which has been tracking Santa"s Christmas Eve flight for 59 years -- estimates that Santa will arrive in Alabama at 11 p.m.
If you"d like to track Santa"s global mission click on the NORAD map below:
Source: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/12/google_norad_santa_tracker_201.html
