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Solar flares in January 1982
C-class270
M-class25
X-class1
LargestX1.11982-01-30
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1981 | 168 | 28 | 1 | X2.1 |
| January 1982 | 270 | 25 | 1 | X1.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-01-30 | 23:21 | 23:55 | 37 | X1.1 | S15E12 | 3576 |
| 1982-01-28 | 06:49 | 07:15 | 136 | M8.8 | N09E45 | 3573 |
| 1982-01-02 | 06:17 | 06:20 | 28 | M8.1 | N19W86 | 3522 |
| 1982-01-24 | 19:52 | 20:01 | 41 | M6.6 | N11E88 | 3573 |
| 1982-01-30 | 12:08 | 12:21 | 23 | M4.2 | – | – |
| 1982-01-09 | 11:19 | 11:28 | 16 | M3.6 | – | – |
| 1982-01-01 | 00:55 | 01:01 | 56 | M3.1 | N17W73 | 3522 |
| 1982-01-08 | 13:54 | 14:32 | 319 | M3.0 | N10W60 | 3537 |
| 1982-01-22 | 04:40 | 04:49 | 25 | M2.7 | N04W78 | 3550 |
| 1982-01-24 | 01:50 | 02:03 | 30 | M2.7 | – | – |
| 1982-01-31 | 13:23 | 13:24 | 31 | M2.5 | S12E20 | 3576 |
| 1982-01-31 | 22:10 | 22:18 | 58 | M2.2 | N10E18 | 3579 |
| 1982-01-03 | 00:10 | 00:23 | 25 | M1.9 | – | 3522 |
| 1982-01-13 | 01:28 | 01:35 | 65 | M1.9 | S20W72 | 3545 |
| 1982-01-09 | 07:29 | 07:35 | 24 | M1.7 | N10W67 | 3537 |
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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296 flares of class C or larger in January 1982; by M/X count it ranks 121 of 565 months.