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Solar flares in March 1982
C-class405
M-class27
X-class2
LargestX2.81982-03-30
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1981 | 240 | 39 | 1 | X2.2 |
| March 1982 | 405 | 27 | 2 | X2.8 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-03-30 | 05:22 | 05:49 | 184 | X2.8 | N13W11 | 3659 |
| 1982-03-07 | 03:08 | 03:21 | 17 | X2.7 | N17W53 | 3628 |
| 1982-03-31 | 22:23 | 22:27 | 22 | M7.4 | N11W43 | 3659 |
| 1982-03-08 | 20:10 | 20:23 | 34 | M6.1 | – | 3628 |
| 1982-03-27 | 14:10 | 14:18 | 97 | M4.9 | N11E18 | 3659 |
| 1982-03-05 | 02:30 | 02:48 | 81 | M4.2 | S24E01 | 3629 |
| 1982-03-31 | 08:31 | 08:37 | 27 | M4.2 | N08W39 | 3659 |
| 1982-03-19 | 15:30 | 15:38 | 138 | M2.7 | S10W29 | 3643 |
| 1982-03-31 | 06:11 | 06:20 | 16 | M2.7 | – | 3659 |
| 1982-03-10 | 02:59 | 03:16 | 100 | M2.6 | S02E80 | 3640 |
| 1982-03-19 | 04:05 | 05:03 | 148 | M2.6 | S06W26 | 3643 |
| 1982-03-26 | 05:45 | 05:49 | 8 | M2.2 | – | 3662 |
| 1982-03-28 | 10:04 | 10:08 | 15 | M2.1 | S20E41 | 3662 |
| 1982-03-30 | 02:36 | 02:40 | 38 | M2.1 | N16E30 | 3667 |
| 1982-03-30 | 14:18 | 14:24 | 56 | M2.1 | N11W20 | 3659 |
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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434 flares of class C or larger in March 1982; by M/X count it ranks 105 of 565 months.