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How to follow Santa's Sleigh across Northern Ireland on Christmas Eve

You must be asleep before Santa arrives 😴 🎅

Author: Emma DicksonPublished 24th Dec 2021
Last updated 24th Dec 2021

Tonight’s the night, when thousands of children across the world await a special delivery from the man in red.

Santa Clause and his elves have made their naughty and nice lists, and have checked them twice!

There’s roughly 2.2 billion children across the globe – so Santa has busy night ahead of him. He’ll be flying over hundreds of countries with different time zones all in one day!

But did you know you can actually track Santa and his sleigh?

For over 60 years, the Norad Santa Tracker has been following Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and, of course, Rudolph.

They’ve suggested that Santa’s route starts off in the South Pacific first, then New Zealand and Australia.

After that, he goes up to Japan, over to Asia, across to Africa, then onto Western Europe, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Central and South America.

Of course, the different climates and weather can play a part in travel disruption.

What will the weather be like on Christmas Eve night?

According to the Met Office, the skies should remain cloudy above Northern Ireland, with patchy rain in places but mostly dry, with southeasterly winds.

Santa shouldn't have a problem visiting Northern Ireland!

If you would like to track Santa visit noradsanta.org/en/

All this excitement, but was happens if you wake up on tomorrow and there’s no gifts left under the tree, only coal?