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Solar flares in May 1976
C-class9
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM0.21976-05-01
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-05-01 | 21:42 | 21:54 | 53 | M0.2 | S09W60 | 700 |
| 1976-05-16 | 14:44 | 15:01 | 33 | C0.3 | S04W65 | 709 |
| 1976-05-01 | 20:42 | – | 15 | C0.1 | S09W60 | 700 |
| 1976-05-13 | 14:01 | 14:03 | 7 | C0.0 | S10E73 | 707 |
| 1976-05-15 | 03:14 | 03:15 | 8 | C0.0 | S03W45 | 704 |
| 1976-05-15 | 10:37 | 10:40 | 23 | C0.0 | S14E60 | 707 |
| 1976-05-18 | 13:48 | 13:51 | 19 | C0.0 | S06E67 | 711 |
| 1976-05-18 | 16:23 | 16:27 | 15 | C0.0 | S08E68 | 711 |
| 1976-05-19 | 13:37 | 13:40 | 9 | C0.0 | N07W31 | 706 |
| 1976-05-23 | 11:37 | 11:46 | 31 | C0.0 | S08E05 | 711 |
All times UTC. Until June 2017 classes are NOAA's reports of the time (GOES-15 and earlier included a 0.7 scaling factor); later classes come from calibrated GOES-16/18 data, so the same flare reads about 1.4× larger. Do not compare the two periods directly.
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10 flares of class C or larger in May 1976; by M/X count it ranks 402 of 565 months.