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Solar flares in August 1978
C-class62
M-class2
X-class0
LargestM0.21978-08-30
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1977 | 12 | 0 | 0 | C0.5 |
| August 1978 | 62 | 2 | 0 | M0.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-08-30 | 15:30 | 15:48 | 93 | M0.2 | N15E65 | 1271 |
| 1978-08-16 | 13:26 | 13:37 | 40 | M0.1 | S28W76 | 1238 |
| 1978-08-27 | 15:59 | 16:25 | 58 | C0.8 | N23E60 | 1266 |
| 1978-08-15 | 10:20 | 10:23 | 17 | C0.6 | S27W65 | 1238 |
| 1978-08-30 | 22:13 | 22:17 | 11 | C0.6 | S30E71 | 1272 |
| 1978-08-31 | 05:28 | 05:31 | 4 | C0.6 | N14E59 | 1271 |
| 1978-08-31 | 16:26 | 17:01 | 64 | C0.5 | S30E61 | 1272 |
| 1978-08-27 | 20:36 | 20:38 | 18 | C0.4 | N23E58 | 1266 |
| 1978-08-07 | 17:36 | 17:56 | 22 | C0.3 | S26E40 | 1238 |
| 1978-08-08 | 14:44 | 15:10 | 35 | C0.3 | S26E26 | 1238 |
| 1978-08-14 | 08:25 | – | 4 | C0.3 | S20W85 | 1249 |
| 1978-08-15 | 15:47 | 15:48 | 20 | C0.3 | S28W62 | 1238 |
| 1978-08-17 | 03:43 | 03:45 | 14 | C0.3 | N45E10 | 1251 |
| 1978-08-13 | 11:04 | 11:04 | 11 | C0.2 | S23W66 | 1249 |
| 1978-08-13 | 17:56 | 17:59 | 15 | C0.2 | S24W71 | 1249 |
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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64 flares of class C or larger in August 1978; by M/X count it ranks 377 of 565 months.