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Solar flares in March 1978
C-class38
M-class5
X-class0
LargestM0.11978-03-04
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1977 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C0.2 |
| March 1978 | 38 | 5 | 0 | M0.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-03-04 | 00:41 | 00:49 | 49 | M0.1 | N15E45 | 1024 |
| 1978-03-04 | 12:22 | 12:43 | 118 | M0.1 | N17E38 | 1024 |
| 1978-03-04 | 12:39 | 12:48 | 26 | M0.1 | S20W69 | 1014 |
| 1978-03-04 | 12:45 | 12:48 | 13 | M0.1 | N35W71 | 1015 |
| 1978-03-09 | 18:40 | 18:40 | 10 | M0.1 | S31E85 | 1031 |
| 1978-03-14 | 03:41 | 03:44 | 26 | C0.8 | S27E34 | 1031 |
| 1978-03-04 | 02:41 | 02:45 | 61 | C0.7 | N24E53 | 1027 |
| 1978-03-15 | 12:35 | 12:46 | 40 | C0.7 | N19E65 | 1035 |
| 1978-03-02 | 18:30 | 18:31 | 15 | C0.6 | N20E60 | 1024 |
| 1978-03-15 | 04:40 | 04:42 | 7 | C0.6 | N16E70 | 1035 |
| 1978-03-22 | 04:35 | 04:35 | 9 | C0.5 | S35W61 | 1031 |
| 1978-03-24 | 23:16 | 23:20 | 34 | C0.5 | N19W57 | 1035 |
| 1978-03-06 | 01:49 | 01:56 | 18 | C0.4 | N13E19 | 1025 |
| 1978-03-09 | 12:06 | 12:10 | 13 | C0.4 | S27E90 | 1031 |
| 1978-03-13 | 13:56 | 14:02 | 56 | C0.4 | N25W76 | 1224 |
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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43 flares of class C or larger in March 1978; by M/X count it ranks 307 of 565 months.