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Solar flares in January 1983
C-class174
M-class2
X-class0
LargestM1.21983-01-27
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1982 | 270 | 25 | 1 | X1.1 |
| January 1983 | 174 | 2 | 0 | M1.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-01-27 | 03:30 | 03:38 | 27 | M1.2 | S15E73 | 4075 |
| 1983-01-02 | 02:02 | 02:02 | 19 | M1.1 | S12W78 | 4033 |
| 1983-01-01 | 09:42 | 09:49 | 24 | C8.7 | S12W55 | 4033 |
| 1983-01-01 | 00:37 | 00:44 | 47 | C7.3 | S14W49 | 4033 |
| 1983-01-01 | 22:54 | 22:59 | 33 | C5.9 | S14W58 | 4033 |
| 1983-01-12 | 10:44 | 10:49 | 22 | C5.4 | S16W44 | 4054 |
| 1983-01-12 | 21:17 | 21:20 | 14 | C5.3 | N09E71 | 4062 |
| 1983-01-07 | 08:00 | 10:06 | 213 | C4.9 | – | – |
| 1983-01-08 | 13:41 | 13:45 | 72 | C4.9 | S09E07 | 4044 |
| 1983-01-08 | 13:29 | 13:30 | 33 | C4.3 | S10E41 | 4053 |
| 1983-01-16 | 23:23 | 23:23 | 22 | C4.0 | N09E32 | 4064 |
| 1983-01-13 | 18:07 | 18:27 | 110 | C3.9 | S16W16 | – |
| 1983-01-29 | 19:31 | 19:35 | 8 | C3.7 | – | 4075 |
| 1983-01-05 | 03:29 | 03:39 | 48 | C3.3 | S13E57 | 4048 |
| 1983-01-12 | 19:06 | 19:12 | 45 | C3.2 | N09E72 | 4062 |
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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176 flares of class C or larger in January 1983; by M/X count it ranks 378 of 565 months.