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Solar flares in December 1982
C-class277
M-class78
X-class10
LargestX12.91982-12-15
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1981 | 271 | 20 | 0 | M5.2 |
| December 1982 | 277 | 78 | 10 | X12.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-12-15 | 01:50 | 01:59 | 96 | X12.9 | S10E24 | 4026 |
| 1982-12-17 | 18:19 | 18:58 | 204 | X10.1 | S08W21 | 4025 |
| 1982-12-15 | 16:20 | 16:37 | 89 | X5.0 | S10E15 | 4026 |
| 1982-12-07 | 23:36 | 23:54 | 71 | X2.8 | – | 4007 |
| 1982-12-22 | 08:26 | 08:33 | 31 | X2.4 | S09W82 | 4025 |
| 1982-12-25 | 07:43 | 07:50 | 60 | X2.2 | S14E31 | 4033 |
| 1982-12-29 | 06:43 | 06:45 | 34 | X1.9 | S13W12 | 4033 |
| 1982-12-16 | 14:53 | 15:05 | 253 | X1.6 | S07W09 | 4025 |
| 1982-12-18 | 08:22 | 08:25 | 34 | X1.2 | S10W20 | 4026 |
| 1982-12-18 | 15:04 | 15:08 | 41 | X1.1 | S11W22 | 4026 |
| 1982-12-11 | 04:39 | 04:42 | 34 | M9.5 | S10E78 | 4026 |
| 1982-12-09 | 11:23 | 11:38 | 66 | M9.2 | – | – |
| 1982-12-19 | 15:41 | 16:32 | 173 | M9.0 | N10W75 | 4022 |
| 1982-12-13 | 03:21 | 03:26 | 57 | M8.3 | S09E51 | 4026 |
| 1982-12-10 | 03:58 | 04:32 | 118 | M8.2 | N09E47 | 4022 |
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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365 flares of class C or larger in December 1982; by M/X count it ranks 13 of 565 months.