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Solar flares in November 1981
C-class383
M-class38
X-class1
LargestX1.21981-11-12
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1980 | 196 | 109 | 7 | X9.0 |
| November 1981 | 383 | 38 | 1 | X1.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981-11-12 | 15:41 | 16:06 | 50 | X1.2 | – | 3451 |
| 1981-11-07 | 03:54 | 03:56 | 22 | M6.6 | S07W39 | 3432 |
| 1981-11-14 | 22:09 | 22:19 | 48 | M5.0 | N16W49 | 3451 |
| 1981-11-04 | 18:25 | 18:32 | 27 | M3.9 | S10W05 | 3432 |
| 1981-11-05 | 08:33 | 08:48 | 22 | M3.5 | S10W11 | 3432 |
| 1981-11-15 | 14:21 | 14:23 | 68 | M3.5 | S06E60 | 3464 |
| 1981-11-13 | 10:59 | 11:04 | 20 | M3.1 | – | – |
| 1981-11-09 | 12:28 | 12:29 | 127 | M3.0 | S11E18 | 3450 |
| 1981-11-13 | 16:37 | 16:49 | 39 | M3.0 | N18W30 | 3451 |
| 1981-11-18 | 04:13 | 04:18 | 25 | M2.7 | S19W24 | 3467 |
| 1981-11-08 | 03:15 | 03:20 | 19 | M2.5 | – | – |
| 1981-11-05 | 12:35 | 12:42 | 22 | M2.2 | – | – |
| 1981-11-29 | 15:41 | 16:45 | 77 | M2.1 | – | 3485 |
| 1981-11-12 | 01:06 | 01:18 | 33 | M2.0 | – | – |
| 1981-11-14 | 05:26 | 05:38 | 42 | M2.0 | N18E04 | 3456 |
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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422 flares of class C or larger in November 1981; by M/X count it ranks 69 of 565 months.