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Solar flares in March 1980
C-class99
M-class6
X-class0
LargestM0.51980-03-27
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1979 | 112 | 28 | 4 | X0.1 |
| March 1980 | 99 | 6 | 0 | M0.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-03-27 | 18:38 | 18:39 | 119 | M0.5 | N22E60 | 2363 |
| 1980-03-28 | 21:58 | 22:01 | 22 | M0.4 | N09W04 | 2357 |
| 1980-03-02 | 16:34 | 16:37 | 22 | M0.2 | S28W71 | 2309 |
| 1980-03-27 | 12:33 | 12:53 | 93 | M0.2 | N28E69 | 2363 |
| 1980-03-28 | 19:59 | 20:04 | 43 | M0.2 | N13W01 | 2360 |
| 1980-03-29 | 09:42 | 09:58 | 24 | M0.1 | N07W10 | 2357 |
| 1980-03-26 | 13:29 | 13:34 | 24 | C0.9 | S29W80 | 2339 |
| 1980-03-29 | 14:43 | 14:47 | 12 | C0.8 | N08W13 | 2357 |
| 1980-03-06 | 04:17 | 04:20 | 43 | C0.7 | N15W25 | 2314 |
| 1980-03-23 | 16:57 | 17:02 | 18 | C0.7 | S27W46 | 2339 |
| 1980-03-25 | 04:25 | 04:30 | 20 | C0.7 | S20W75 | 2339 |
| 1980-03-31 | 00:51 | 00:51 | 12 | C0.7 | N03W21 | 2361 |
| 1980-03-26 | 00:02 | 00:07 | 29 | C0.6 | N14E52 | 2359 |
| 1980-03-29 | 00:43 | 00:46 | 10 | C0.6 | N28E45 | 2363 |
| 1980-03-29 | 01:02 | 01:20 | 62 | C0.6 | N27E42 | 2363 |
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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105 flares of class C or larger in March 1980; by M/X count it ranks 294 of 565 months.