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Solar flares in May 1980
C-class213
M-class32
X-class3
LargestX3.01980-05-01
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1979 | 97 | 6 | 0 | M0.9 |
| May 1980 | 213 | 32 | 3 | X3.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-05-01 | 18:51 | 19:15 | 50 | X3.0 | S22E60 | 2418 |
| 1980-05-21 | 20:51 | 21:00 | 35 | X1.4 | S14W15 | 2456 |
| 1980-05-28 | 19:24 | 19:51 | 89 | X1.1 | S18W33 | 2470 |
| 1980-05-09 | 07:11 | 07:14 | 37 | M7.2 | S21W32 | 2418 |
| 1980-05-28 | 23:32 | 23:44 | 73 | M6.9 | S17W39 | 2470 |
| 1980-05-07 | 13:18 | 13:20 | 19 | M4.6 | S22W12 | 2418 |
| 1980-05-01 | 16:19 | 16:32 | 20 | M4.0 | – | 2418 |
| 1980-05-09 | 20:22 | 20:54 | 80 | M3.8 | S30E31 | 2433 |
| 1980-05-17 | 07:34 | 07:41 | 20 | M3.6 | N15E28 | 2455 |
| 1980-05-28 | 17:05 | 17:18 | 48 | M3.6 | S18W35 | 2470 |
| 1980-05-11 | 23:40 | 23:44 | 8 | M3.3 | – | 2418 |
| 1980-05-18 | 01:04 | 01:08 | 33 | M3.0 | N15E15 | 2455 |
| 1980-05-01 | 20:55 | 21:08 | 39 | M2.8 | – | 2407 |
| 1980-05-28 | 21:53 | 22:05 | 43 | M2.8 | S24W33 | 2470 |
| 1980-05-08 | 00:58 | 00:58 | 14 | M2.4 | S22W18 | 2418 |
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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248 flares of class C or larger in May 1980; by M/X count it ranks 85 of 565 months.