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Solar flares in March 1979
C-class112
M-class28
X-class4
LargestX0.11979-03-01
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1978 | 38 | 5 | 0 | M0.1 |
| March 1979 | 112 | 28 | 4 | X0.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-03-01 | 09:55 | 10:15 | 100 | X0.1 | S24E68 | 1599 |
| 1979-03-25 | 18:02 | 18:15 | 61 | X0.1 | N10W77 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-26 | 11:50 | 12:13 | 53 | X0.1 | N05W78 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-27 | 05:43 | 06:20 | 65 | X0.1 | N07W90 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-19 | 16:54 | 16:57 | 51 | M0.7 | N07E15 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-26 | 14:03 | 14:08 | 100 | M0.7 | N06W75 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-31 | 23:11 | 23:13 | 61 | M0.5 | S25E31 | 1661 |
| 1979-03-24 | 14:42 | 14:56 | 46 | M0.4 | N09W57 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-02 | 03:33 | 03:38 | 20 | M0.3 | S18E90 | 1605 |
| 1979-03-22 | 03:24 | 03:26 | 36 | M0.3 | N07W19 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-23 | 06:44 | 06:47 | 24 | M0.2 | N08E65 | 1649 |
| 1979-03-23 | 19:04 | 19:20 | 71 | M0.2 | N08W43 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-25 | 00:30 | 00:40 | 28 | M0.2 | N08W60 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-25 | 16:33 | 16:50 | 50 | M0.2 | N09W71 | 1638 |
| 1979-03-26 | 20:02 | 20:09 | 21 | M0.2 | N05W80 | 1638 |
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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144 flares of class C or larger in March 1979; by M/X count it ranks 101 of 565 months.