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Solar flares in May 1979
C-class97
M-class6
X-class0
LargestM0.91979-05-02
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1978 | 85 | 24 | 2 | X0.2 |
| May 1979 | 97 | 6 | 0 | M0.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-02 | 16:51 | 16:59 | 68 | M0.9 | N23W55 | 1705 |
| 1979-05-06 | 23:39 | 23:41 | 15 | M0.2 | N23E34 | 1727 |
| 1979-05-17 | 16:40 | 16:48 | 24 | M0.2 | S21W74 | 1729 |
| 1979-05-01 | 03:54 | 03:58 | 21 | M0.1 | N15E18 | 1711 |
| 1979-05-17 | 01:07 | 01:22 | 32 | M0.1 | S21W69 | 1729 |
| 1979-05-19 | 20:35 | 20:36 | 18 | M0.1 | N16W84 | 1743 |
| 1979-05-01 | 20:24 | 20:33 | 41 | C0.9 | N18W46 | 1705 |
| 1979-05-03 | 01:15 | 01:33 | 53 | C0.8 | N13W03 | 1711 |
| 1979-05-14 | 09:32 | 09:38 | 118 | C0.8 | N24E68 | 1742 |
| 1979-05-17 | 19:53 | 20:03 | 34 | C0.8 | S22W74 | 1729 |
| 1979-05-19 | 04:28 | 04:31 | 14 | C0.8 | N16W72 | 1743 |
| 1979-05-01 | 00:18 | 00:19 | 5 | C0.7 | S04W01 | 1711 |
| 1979-05-05 | 08:15 | – | 10 | C0.7 | N05E87 | – |
| 1979-05-08 | 00:46 | 00:48 | 16 | C0.6 | N25E19 | 1727 |
| 1979-05-14 | 20:23 | 20:26 | 8 | C0.6 | N15E11 | 1740 |
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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103 flares of class C or larger in May 1979; by M/X count it ranks 293 of 565 months.