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The sun is pictured Wednesday amid a G4-level \u2014 or severe \u2014 geomagnetic storm. <\/p>\n
(NOAA)<\/p>\n
In Los Angeles County, most residents under the city\u2019s heavy dome of light pollution were likely unaware that the phenomenon was unfolding nearby.<\/p>\n
But in darker pockets of the region \u2014 the Angeles National Forest, Joshua Tree, and parts of the high desert \u2014 stargazers and photographers stood a better chance of watching the ribbons of color unfurl in the night sky.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday evening, NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center said that \u201csevere geomagnetic storm\u201d levels had been reached. Although these storms can produce great beauty with the northern lights, they can also interfere with GPS and electrical systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been talking to some state watch centers, FEMA, even the highest levels of our government at the White House, to inform them about this type of activity,\u201d said Sean Dahl, a space weather forecaster at the center in a video on X<\/a>. \u201cBecause these can impact the electric power grid of our country \u2014 the bulk electric system \u2014 and even satellite operations and communications.\u201d<\/p>\n The northern lights fill the sky behind the Saint Joseph the Woodworker Shrine on Tuesday night near Valley Falls, Kan.<\/p>\n (Charlie Riedel \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n The aurora borealis was also visible in Northern California and as far south as Florida<\/a>, with especially stunning shows captured in Colorado<\/a> and Washington<\/a>. <\/p>\n Dahl said that another blast of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection, is forecast to arrive in the United States midday Wednesday. However, daylight will likely obscure additional sightings of the northern lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Triggered by an intense geomagnetic storm, the northern lights made a rare visit to the Southland on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32050,31894,32048,32055,48,52,51,32052,47,50,49,63,32051,10645,31780,32056,32054,32049,32053,10493,22926],"class_list":["post-49495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-angeles-national-forest","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-geomagnetic-storm","tag-heavy-dome","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-level","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-many-part","tag-noaa","tag-northern-light","tag-photographer","tag-rare-los-angeles-appearance","tag-sean-dahl","tag-sky","tag-stargazer","tag-tuesday-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/p>\n