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Solar flares in September 1982
C-class235
M-class7
X-class0
LargestM6.41982-09-04
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1981 | 376 | 42 | 1 | X2.3 |
| September 1982 | 235 | 7 | 0 | M6.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-09-04 | 00:01 | 00:48 | 215 | M6.4 | N10E36 | 3886 |
| 1982-09-04 | 02:00 | 03:45 | 180 | M4.0 | N11E30 | 3886 |
| 1982-09-30 | 01:32 | 01:39 | 46 | M3.8 | N16E06 | 3922 |
| 1982-09-01 | 07:31 | 07:46 | 117 | M3.3 | N11E78 | 3886 |
| 1982-09-06 | 01:46 | 01:54 | 28 | M2.2 | N14E12 | 3886 |
| 1982-09-15 | 18:17 | 18:24 | 12 | M2.1 | N17E60 | 3908 |
| 1982-09-26 | 23:15 | 23:26 | 66 | M1.0 | N17E31 | 3917 |
| 1982-09-09 | 00:14 | 00:33 | 59 | C9.6 | S10E32 | 3895 |
| 1982-09-02 | 18:26 | 18:40 | 74 | C9.4 | N16E58 | 3886 |
| 1982-09-19 | 14:19 | 15:12 | 225 | C9.2 | S15E07 | 3907 |
| 1982-09-09 | 09:57 | 09:59 | 18 | C8.4 | N13W48 | 3885 |
| 1982-09-29 | 15:18 | 15:25 | 40 | C8.4 | N16E11 | 3922 |
| 1982-09-05 | 09:56 | 10:14 | 47 | C8.1 | – | – |
| 1982-09-01 | 16:20 | 16:24 | 8 | C7.6 | – | – |
| 1982-09-12 | 16:06 | 16:11 | 61 | C7.3 | S14W11 | 3895 |
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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242 flares of class C or larger in September 1982; by M/X count it ranks 276 of 565 months.