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Solar flares in November 1978
C-class55
M-class5
X-class0
LargestM0.21978-11-10
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1977 | 10 | 0 | 1 | X0.1 |
| November 1978 | 55 | 5 | 0 | M0.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-11-10 | 13:59 | 14:02 | 16 | M0.2 | S14W38 | 1382 |
| 1978-11-29 | 05:17 | 05:21 | 33 | M0.2 | N16E40 | 1417 |
| 1978-11-10 | 01:13 | 01:13 | 79 | M0.1 | N17E02 | 1385 |
| 1978-11-28 | 05:30 | 05:32 | 39 | M0.1 | N15E52 | 1417 |
| 1978-11-30 | 01:47 | 01:55 | 46 | M0.1 | N16E22 | 1417 |
| 1978-11-01 | 13:29 | 13:39 | 72 | C0.9 | N21W55 | 1370 |
| 1978-11-07 | 16:19 | 16:23 | 28 | C0.7 | N22E42 | 1385 |
| 1978-11-08 | 17:49 | 17:52 | 6 | C0.5 | S20W61 | 1381 |
| 1978-11-28 | 02:57 | 02:57 | 18 | C0.5 | N11W46 | 1407 |
| 1978-11-08 | 16:49 | 16:52 | 34 | C0.4 | S14W11 | 1382 |
| 1978-11-10 | 17:27 | 17:47 | 51 | C0.4 | N18W06 | 1385 |
| 1978-11-02 | 14:00 | 14:05 | 10 | C0.3 | S26E29 | 1381 |
| 1978-11-06 | 12:20 | 12:26 | 29 | C0.3 | S24W22 | 1374 |
| 1978-11-11 | 14:14 | 14:16 | 9 | C0.3 | N19W24 | 1385 |
| 1978-11-29 | 15:19 | 15:24 | 11 | C0.3 | S16E57 | 1429 |
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.
About this page
60 flares of class C or larger in November 1978; by M/X count it ranks 308 of 565 months.