Hola, Sector 4

I send you greetings from the all-new Regional Tracking Center for Sector 4 located in San Nicolas, Aruba.

I’m not going to lie: this is paradise.

We’ve already had the crew out to the beach and surfing…and working hard.

We’re a little like Sector 1 in that we have a lot of contact with the North Pole Navy, although our area of concern is the Atlantic, not the Pacific. Even still, it is an honor to work with those elves. They do important stuff.

We’re getting ready for a fleet visit from them sometime in September. I’ll share news of that with you in the weeks ahead.

In the meantime, we’re just getting organized.

We’re ready for your reports and for the first few weeks we are going to focus on the weather.

It might be odd to you but we want you to send in a weather report at least once a week. We prefer to get these from you in our Sector every Wednesday.

Why?

Well, at first it is a calibration thing. We got instrumentation coming from the test flights of Santa’s sleigh and from the North Pole Navy. Also, there’s some satellite stuff going on.

You might think a weather report in August or September might not be important since Santa’s not going to be flying anywhere soon. But, for all the elements mentioned above, we really need accurate current data and forecast data from all over the Sector – especially Greenland.

So we hope you’re paying attention out there and can send in these weather reports every Wednesday.

There are more report requests to come, for sure. But we want to keep it simple for now.

We’re glad you’re aboard and we hope you stick around for the next 19 weeks as we countdown to the launch of Santa from the North Pole.

About this Elf: Elf Tubby Ryder

Elf Tubby is well known to those familiar with North Pole flight operations, where he has served as an Associate Director Flight Director for many years. He has given Christmas Eve flight service in many places all over the world, most notably in 1994 when Santa had to move all his flight operations to the South Pole. Elf Tubby coordinated that project.

Tubby has a large family of 18 children. He, his wife Delores and children live on a converted reindeer ranch not far from town. Tubby is an avid skier and is often found on Mt. Frosty here at the North Pole after Christmas is over, where he volunteers as a Ski Patrol member. Tubby is also a master chef, having attended school in Italy many years ago.