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Solar flares in March 1977
C-class2
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC0.21977-03-08
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1976 | 46 | 8 | 2 | X0.1 |
| March 1977 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C0.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-03-08 | 17:07 | 17:12 | 29 | C0.2 | N21W14 | 792 |
| 1977-03-08 | 14:25 | 14:30 | 30 | C0.0 | N20E01 | 790 |
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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2 flares of class C or larger in March 1977; by M/X count it ranks 458 of 565 months.