Immediate Weather Reports Needed

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We just posted the news at SantaUpdate.com about Thanksgiving and it immediately triggered a request from North Pole Flight Command.

This is for all trackers in every sector:

PLEASE SUBMIT A DAILY WEATHER REPORT, INCLUDING AT LEAST A THREE-DAY FORECAST, FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH.

This is where you can find the weather report.

We can expect to see a lot of sleighs in the skies for the next week. Elves will be moving all over the world in order to get home for Thanksgiving. With the weather being forecast in the extreme at the North Pole, they will be looking to give elves a little more time to get home in between weather events. While North Pole Flight Command is monitoring the weather at the North Pole, they need reports from everywhere else to help these elves return home for Thanksgiving.

Just as we do with Santa on Christmas Eve, our reports now can help keep these elves safe.

Please plan to do a DAILY weather report from your area between now and the Sunday following Thanksgiving.

If you have questions feel free to ask them in the comments below.

Special Request from Santa

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About a month ago I posted a request of a Local Christmas Report from tracker elves around the world. The response to that request was very good.

Four weeks since I made that request we know a little more about the state of Christmas around the world. What you reported has raised some concerns at North Pole Flight Command and with Santa Claus.

After a lot of meetings this week, some Zoom calls with Santa, and discussing things with the Elf Supervisors, I am asking, on behalf of Santa, for all tracker elves to step up at this time and do some “above and beyond the call of duty” kind of things right now.

First, we need you to do that Local Christmas Report as soon as you can. We need to see if things are the same or if things have changed.

Second, we would like all tracker elves — North Pole Tracker Elves, Junior Tracker Elves and Freelance Tracker Elves — to please submit a Public Observance Report as soon as you can.

Please understand the difference between these reports. It was reported via the Elf Supervisors that some wayward elves have taken upon themselves to use this report in the wrong way. (They were using it to “snitch” on others and “report them to the naughty list”, which is silly because there is NO naughty list).

When Santa sends trackers out to observe that’s what they are doing. They are watching, not spying. You’re not looking to see anything wrong. You’re just looking and reporting on what you see. Santa wants honesty. But he doesn’t want an elf anywhere thinking they have the right to opine on someone’s behavior.

With the Public Observance Report Santa is not looking for information about one person. He wants to know about large groups of people where you’re reporting from.

I would also tell you that Santa has big concerns about the next month of operations and even bigger concerns about his flight this year. He is asking for all tracker elves to RECRUIT as many new elves as you possibly can. North Pole Flight Command agrees that more eyes out there working to track Santa for Santa are going to be useful when Santa launches.

If you are a new elf, and there are many, we ask that you go to Elf University and learn as much as you can. Then go to the Elf Wall and ask questions of the elves that are there. Please do the standard reports for your area: Roof Report, Chimney Inspection and Landing Zone Report. Be sending in Weather Reports at least weekly.

This is our critical period. We need tracker elves to increase their activity as soon as possible.

Sector Lead Announcement

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After waiting for what felt like forever in hearing back from Elf Crash and Santa, I can now officially announce we have a new Sector Lead in Sector 5.

Elf NotJack, who has several years experience tracking Santa for Santa, will be our sector lead as he gear up for this season. She will be helping new elves, promoting the recruitment of elves and sharing news on social media, and helping me to get the word out on news and events that affect tracker elves in Sector 5.

I’m very excited to have someone so capable. She’s smart, she’s savvy, she’s alert, aware and dedicated to the cause of Santa Claus. Girl power in Sector 5!!!

(Sorry, guys. I’m just teasing).

Both Santa and Elf Crash heartily endorsed Elf NotJack. Santa said this was a very wise choice and he’s excited to have so much experience at the lead in Sector 5. Elf Crash said he could endorse my selection of Elf NotJack “with both hands high in the air”.

It is a great moment in Sector 5. Please join me in welcoming her to her new elf job.

Canada Very Active

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Hi Gang,

Right now we are kind of in a holding pattern with Flight Command. I’ve asked them for clear direction of how we can help them and they keep telling me to just wait.

All the sleigh flight activity that’s not related to the test flights of Santa’s sleigh so far seems to be in Canada – most specifically in the Yukon, which is pretty sparsely populated. That’s also a land of a lot of lumber and it is told to me that wood is coming from there to supply Santa’s Workshop.

That is a place and that is a product that moves regardless of the weather. They do have plenty of early winter weather there and Flight Command knows all about it.

If that changes, I’ll let you know.

But for now, Sector 5 is going to focus on our regular work.

So – if you haven’t done roof reports and chimney inspections yet please close that up. And keep the weekly weather reports coming from your area.

Thanks, Elves!

All Trackers on Alert

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It is only the end of September but I feel compelled to issue an alert for all Santa Trackers world wide.

There is a crisis in Santa’s Workshop and elves from nearly every department at the North Pole are mobilizing to help in the effort. We are equally called upon to join in the effort.

Starting TODAY, I am meeting via Zoom with Elf Supervisors, who are all at their stations at the Regional Tracking Centers. We are going through the latest instructions from North Pole Flight Command.

You can expect some specific instructions coming from each of them over the course of the next couple of days.

In addition, I have asked, and I believe he has already posted on the Elf Wall, for Elf Harold Star to remind you about the North Pole Chat already scheduled at SantaUpdate.com for this Sunday at 3pm EDT.

I hope to have new information and instruction that I can share at that time. As usual, chat recaps will be posted.

I do not yet have details to share at this time but I suspect most of what might be required of us will be added and specific weather reports for certain areas. I believe special missions to route needed supplies to the North Pole are being devised at this time and our instructions will be related to those missions.

What part, if any, Santa will play in these events are unknown. I can tell you, however, that is he very hands on with this whole process and that we can expect to hear more from him about this situation in the days and weeks ahead.

For now, my hope for each of you is that you will:

  1. Follow the news coming from this site, from SantaUpdate.com and from NorthPoleFlightCommand.com closely. Check in daily.
  2. Send your elf supervisor an Elf Status Report. If you are available for duty or not right now, your Elf Supervisor needs to know.
  3. Be prepared to respond to further reporting requests in the days ahead.

Thanks!

Promotion Questions in Sector 5

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I cannot speak for any of the other Elf Supervisors but since made the announcement about promotions yesterday I have been flooded with questions. Let me see if I can make this more clear for elves in Sector 5.

First of all, if you want added responsibility as an elf, I want to streamline the process. Especially for all of our new Junior Tracker Elves. It is as simple as this:

If you want to be a North Pole Elf, just send me a message telling me that. Elf Moe has promised I can instantly promote you.

Because of this, I need a lot more Elf Trainers. If we will have new elves with the ability to get on the Elf Wall, we will need other North Pole elves to show them what to do and to help them out. If you are an experienced North Pole Elf and want this responsibility, just send me a message.

I would also remind you that I still need a Sector Lead in our sector. This is a big job and it isn’t for every elf, especially a new elf. I need an experienced elf to be my right hand this year. If you qualify and want that responsibility, please let me know.

Many of you have written is saying you’re willing to do anything. I’m thinking it over now and will be messaging you in the days ahead privately to discuss special jobs or missions I have in mind for you.

Thank you for your many responses. Keep them coming!

Elf Promotions Active

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Fellow Elves and Trackers in the Service of Santa,

It is shaping up to be an interesting season already. While I can report that we are on track with our early reporting in our efforts to track Santa for Santa I can tell you now that more will be asked of us this year.

While I cannot yet share full details of what is going on – that will be coming out soon — I can tell you our need for GOOD elves is growing by the minute.

As such, I have directed our Elf Supervisors today to effect as many elf promotions as possible.

That means that as a Freelance or Junior Tracker elf you can be elevate to full North Pole Elf status and obtain greater status and accessibility on this website just by sending your elf supervisor a message.

I am not entirely sure at this time what more will be asked of us in the Tracking Department. But we want to be ready. To be ready means more elves are trained and ready to serve Santa.

More details will be forthcoming. Those elves able and smart enough to act on this message will be rewarded. We need more good elves.

The Santa Map

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We are pleased to announce the opening of The World Santa Map – a place where believers and elves of all kinds can put themselves on Santa’s map.

We are only announcing this now here on Santa Trackers but will soon open the Santa map to site visitors at SantaUpdate.com.

You can put yourself on Santa’s map. In fact, it is intend for Santa to actually use this map. He can bring it up on his phone at any time if he needs a quick reference for any reason. So be sure you put yourself on the map.

You can be identified as a tracker, a freelance elf or any other kind of elf based upon your current assignment from Santa.

And what if you’re not an elf? Well, if you are a Santa Believer, yes there is room for you as well on Santa’s map.

Our thanks go to Elf Max, whose team has worked hard to bring us this new capability. We also acknowledge the help of Elf Gramps and the team at MyMerryChristmas.com for funding this project and keeping SantaTrackers.net available for all to use.

Elf Max and Elf Moe will keep the map running on the backend and will be charged, with their respective teams, in approving new submissions.

Using the map is easy. Just click on the giant red + button on the upper right of the map. There you can add your information, select your classification and pin point your location on the map.

Like all maps, this is just a reference. Please remember that while Santa can see this map so everyone else can too. We ask that you do not put your specific address on the map – just your city, town or village. Please be wise and remain safe. The map doesn’t need to show anything other than that.

Kindly review the submission instructions shown just below the map.

Note as well that the map shows the location of every Regional Tracking Center in each sector (again, town only, not specific street address). Other locations, I am told, that are critical to Operation Merry Christmas, including even the locations of ships of the North Pole Navy may be added at a later time.

We are also pleased to announce that Elf Westover will be our Map Master, serving as the answer-man on the Elf Wall and other places for questions that might be asked. Also feel free to reach out to your Elf Supervisor or respond to this post in the comments with any questions or suggestions you might have.

I’m looking forward to seeing all of your on Santa’s map!

Tracker Sign Ups Surge

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Tracker sign-ups have surged over the past few days after North Pole Flight Command announced the test flights of Santa’s sleigh are coming to Sector 3 in Europe and Africa. Here are some location screenshots that have crossed my computer monitor in just the past hour from Sector 3:

This is just a small sample of what we’re seeing. Yes, there are a lot of sign-ups in England but really I’m seeing it from North to South in our Sector. There is a LOT of energy right now for tracking Santa this year in our sector.

I don’t know if we can keep up this pace but if we do I imagine we can double the number of elves from what we had last year.

That being said, I want you all to remember that we’re not just here for checking the skies for sleighs. Yes, there is a lot of interest in that right now. And I get it. Everyone here at the Regional Tracking Center in Christmas Island is pumped to be checking the skies over us, too. This is a rare opportunity and we’ll be watching like everyone else is.

But while we spend the month of September doing that please do NOT forget we need a lot of reports over the next couple of months. I don’t want all of our new elves to just show up now to look for test flights and then not come back until Santa launches.

Our work here, if you remember, IS TO HELP SANTA.

Now, there’s an elf in Sweden – Elf Freddie the Fixer – I want to send a shout out to. The guy is a freelance elf but he’s dedicated. He’s good. I appreciate all your reports, pal. Nice work. If you are interested in becoming a North Pole Elf, please message me.

Eyes up! The test flights of Santa’s sleigh will be over us soon!

Back to Business

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As North Pole Flight Command announced earlier the test flights of Santa’s Sleigh will soon be in Sector 3. That means it is time for us to get back to business. But, a little fun first:

Elf Z in Flight Command was able to secure for us some great shots of the test flights that have been made available for release. We received hundreds of thousands of sleigh sighting reports over the past month  in our sector and many of those reports included pictures and videos. These are interesting:

 

Sleigh Sighting in Iowa

Taken somewhere in Iowa this shot shows multiple test flight sleighs during a high speed test. This is a confirmed sighting, recorded at a fairly low altitude.

Vancouver BC Sleigh Sighting

This was one of the few verified sleigh sightings on the Pacific Coast, taken in Vancouver BC it is a singular sleigh testing launch angles from the deck of a ship from the North Pole Navy.

Nova Scotia Sleigh Sighting

This was just a few days ago taken by an elf staffer here in Nova Scotia. Yes, we knew the sleighs were near us because Flight Command arranged it. What makes this interesting is the low level of this sighting, not far off the water. This was taken from a boat but we didn’t know exactly where it would happen but the coastal fog made for outstanding conditions for testing on-board lights. Santa does not like to use bright lights because he doesn’t want to wake people up. But sometimes he just needs additional lighting. His complaints are that the on board lighting is either too bright or too dim. So they are testing adjustable lights that can be controlled by voice.

 

I appreciate Elf Z sending these images because they give us a much better idea of the kind of work these test pilot teams do. It’s not all just blazing through the skies – they are DOING stuff out there that they hope will help Santa.

And that’s what we do too. So, back to business. We enjoyed the test flights over our sector the past several weeks but we have spent so much time and reporting in trying to find the test flights we have fallen a little behind in our usual work. So let’s catch up by doing the following:

  1. Chimney Inspections – please do them sooner rather than later. We don’t want you trying to do these in bad weather and by all means **keep your feet on the ground**. Please turn these in by the end of September.
  2. Roof Reports – these are among the most important we can do. If you want to prevent Santa from damaging your roof, please check it out and let us know in advance if there are issues. We are compiling as many pictures to these reports as we can so if you can submit a roof picture use the photo submission report for that.

For now, that’s it. I’m not going to try to ask you for additional reports between now and the end of October unless Flight Command or Santa comes up with something special. Don’t hold me to it but I want to see if the next two months will give us a chance to do a very thorough job with these reports.

Thanks – you’re the best!

Reporting Plan for Sector 4

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Greetings from Christmas Island in Jamaica!

Finally I can announce a reporting plan in our lead up to Santa’s launch. Our sector is so unique that we need to do it two ways: a plan for South America and most of the Atlantic, and another plan for Greenland and the North Atlantic.

First, for everyone in the Sector:

Weather reports: All elves in the sector going forward should send in a weather report each Tuesday from now until December. It will likely change then.

Second, for South America, the Caribbean, and south of the equator in the Atlantic:

Roof Report: It’s Hurricane season, so be careful. We want to get these reports done by the end of September.
Local Christmas Report: Every week on Saturday between now and Halloween. Special request from Santa for some reason.

Third, for Greenland and north of the equator in the Atlantic:

Chimney Inspections: Watch weather conditions, be safe. We have time to get these done but the sooner the better.
Public Observation: This is different than a Local Christmas Report. Another special request from Santa. We need this about every two weeks going forward, your choice of what day of the week.

This is all we need unless the test flights of Santa’s sleigh come back into our sector soon, which I have not heard about.

We’re keeping it simple this year. Be sure to check in at least once a week for breaking news.

Thank you and Merry Christmas.

Santa Tracker Sign Ups Explode

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Almost without explanation and earlier in the season than ever, Elf Flip of North Pole Flip of North Pole Flight Command’s Accounting Department says the number of sign ups for tracker elves is exploding.

“We are not sure yet why these numbers are increasing,” Elf Flip admitted. “We always see a large increase every year around the fall period but that typically doesn’t happen until early to mid-October. This year it is happening now. We’re not sure why.”

The SantaTrackers.net website has not only experienced large-scale renovation but a change in how memberships are processed has actually kept more people out than have accepted them in.

“We have a longer probationary period now to become a North Pole Elf and to participate in the Elf Community online,” Elf Moe, the tracker elf admissions administrator at SantaTrackers.net said. “To get elevated to that status takes time and work and really we’re early in the process for this year. So what we are seeing is an explosion in Junior Tracker elves — newbies — and they are in their probationary period now. Will it lead to a future explosion of North Pole elves as they learn those elf skills and are elevated by the Elf Supervisors? We hope so. That’s the plan.”

The trend is following a general outburst in fresh activity on all Official North Pole websites.

“The interest in Santa and Christmas is intense so far this year,” said Elf Crash Murphy, the International Director of Santa Trackers. “We’re still trying to understand it. It’s been a good year, Operation Merry Christmas has gone very smooth so far, we haven’t had any huge news events to explain it. We’re just seeing a lot of activity early and we think it is good news.”

Some Elf Supervisors are a little nervous about what it can mean. Elf Pinky Yates, Elf Supervisor for Sector 5 covering Central and North America, which is the largest sector in the world of Santa believers, says that test flights concentrated over Sector 5 for much of the month of August could be influencing interest.

“We rarely know where the test flights are going and this year they told us in advance they would be in our skies and then asked us to look for them,” Elf Pinky said. “That has happened at a great time, especially in North America. It’s still summer, so it’s warm and star gazing is a natural part of the summer experience in North America especially. People are already looking up and since we put the word out that they could see a test flight Santa’s sleigh many of them have said they could get into this whole elf thing.”

Elf Flip says the hard numbers won’t be out until sometime in September but he said he expects them to so growth in every sector. Tracking Santa for Santa is going to be very popular this year.