Thanks to Google and NORAD, kids know exactly when they need to be in bed on Christmas Eve.
Santa Claus is preparing to leave the North Pole and is once again racing against the clock to deliver presents to kids around the world before dawn breaks on Christmas morning.Santa has made it to Luanda, Angola, and is up to more than three million gifts delivered!NORAD reported Santa was in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and was headed for Uzbekistan.
On Tuesday morning, Google launched its tracker at 5 a.m. EST, according to the search engine. NORAD followed an hour later, making its tracker live at 6 a.m. EST. Canadian Army Major Andrew Hennessy, NORAD's public affairs officer, toldthat Santa generally starts at the international date line heading west, but he can be affected by weather from time to time.
Santa is responsible for picking his own route around the globe, Hennessy added."Santa calls the shots, we just track him." If previous years are indicative of Santa's 2019 journey, he should be in Australia around 8:30 a.m. EST and then in Russia around 1 p.m. EST. Last year, he arrived on the U.S. East Coast at around 10 p.m. EST. His first stop, according towas in the eastern part of South Carolina. By 10:30 p.m., he was in Virginia and then moved north, past Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Maine, before heading into Canada.
Santa's final stops in the United States were cities on the West Coast, and he finished up at 3:35 EST on Christmas morning, according to theSanta Claus attends the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 28 in New York City. On Christmas Eve, kids can track Santa's trip around the globe with trackers from Google and the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
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