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Solar flares in August 1983
C-class176
M-class18
X-class0
LargestM8.51983-08-01
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1982 | 300 | 25 | 0 | M7.2 |
| August 1983 | 176 | 18 | 0 | M8.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-08-01 | 02:56 | 03:29 | 131 | M8.5 | S08E34 | 4263 |
| 1983-08-13 | 18:00 | 18:13 | 80 | M5.5 | S08E00 | 4278 |
| 1983-08-04 | 03:32 | 03:42 | 36 | M3.5 | S07W24 | 4263 |
| 1983-08-08 | 03:00 | 03:09 | 52 | M3.0 | S07E71 | 4278 |
| 1983-08-03 | 14:40 | 15:15 | 73 | M2.4 | – | 4263 |
| 1983-08-21 | 17:53 | 18:01 | 68 | M2.3 | N14E34 | 4288 |
| 1983-08-23 | 23:22 | 23:24 | 6 | M1.9 | N19W71 | 4284 |
| 1983-08-07 | 21:53 | 22:01 | 8 | M1.8 | S09W58 | 4263 |
| 1983-08-08 | 04:10 | 04:45 | 43 | M1.7 | – | 4278 |
| 1983-08-17 | 19:04 | 19:05 | 40 | M1.4 | S09W54 | 4279 |
| 1983-08-07 | 07:35 | 07:46 | 27 | M1.3 | – | 4278 |
| 1983-08-15 | 09:07 | 09:39 | 56 | M1.3 | – | – |
| 1983-08-17 | 02:32 | 02:32 | 62 | M1.3 | S09W48 | 4279 |
| 1983-08-02 | 23:47 | 23:47 | 16 | M1.2 | S06W08 | 4263 |
| 1983-08-02 | 23:58 | 00:03 | 15 | M1.2 | – | 4263 |
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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194 flares of class C or larger in August 1983; by M/X count it ranks 169 of 565 months.