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Solar flares in July 1982
C-class150
M-class106
X-class5
LargestX9.81982-07-09
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1981 | 332 | 69 | 5 | X3.5 |
| July 1982 | 150 | 106 | 5 | X9.8 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-07-09 | 07:31 | 07:38 | 53 | X9.8 | N17E73 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-12 | 09:16 | 09:18 | 284 | X7.1 | N11E37 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-17 | 10:28 | 10:33 | 53 | X3.2 | N14W32 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-19 | 00:42 | 01:01 | 46 | X1.2 | N20W45 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-09 | 08:25 | 08:59 | 51 | X1.1 | N17E73 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-08 | 06:50 | 06:53 | 27 | M8.8 | N10E88 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-17 | 02:03 | 02:06 | 79 | M8.5 | N11W34 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-09 | 21:05 | 21:08 | 60 | M8.3 | N18E74 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-19 | 21:51 | 22:47 | 98 | M8.2 | – | – |
| 1982-07-11 | 23:03 | 23:09 | 9 | M7.5 | – | – |
| 1982-07-14 | 17:25 | 17:47 | 24 | M7.5 | N18E48 | 3812 |
| 1982-07-19 | 04:16 | 04:23 | 14 | M7.5 | N11W54 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-17 | 12:33 | 12:59 | 73 | M6.8 | N21W26 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-17 | 23:10 | 23:16 | 47 | M6.8 | N18W35 | 3804 |
| 1982-07-15 | 09:24 | 09:26 | 51 | M6.7 | N15E42 | – |
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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261 flares of class C or larger in July 1982; by M/X count it ranks 6 of 565 months.