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Solar flares in December 1983
C-class43
M-class3
X-class0
LargestM2.21983-12-07
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1982 | 277 | 78 | 10 | X12.9 |
| December 1983 | 43 | 3 | 0 | M2.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-12-07 | 00:53 | 00:58 | 16 | M2.2 | – | 4372 |
| 1983-12-06 | 15:30 | 15:43 | 75 | M1.1 | S12E59 | 4372 |
| 1983-12-06 | 07:26 | 07:35 | 22 | M1.0 | – | 4372 |
| 1983-12-06 | 22:25 | 22:30 | 50 | C9.9 | S14E55 | 4372 |
| 1983-12-16 | 15:37 | 15:44 | 25 | C8.9 | S10E44 | 4380 |
| 1983-12-07 | 00:42 | 00:56 | 45 | C8.6 | S14E54 | 4372 |
| 1983-12-17 | 18:34 | 18:43 | 45 | C7.8 | S10E29 | 4380 |
| 1983-12-06 | 10:03 | 10:08 | 49 | C5.5 | – | 4372 |
| 1983-12-17 | 22:26 | 22:52 | 58 | C5.2 | S11E28 | 4380 |
| 1983-12-17 | 15:56 | 16:00 | 15 | C4.3 | S11E31 | 4380 |
| 1983-12-17 | 07:36 | 07:44 | 38 | C3.8 | S11E36 | 4380 |
| 1983-12-06 | 19:29 | 19:33 | 72 | C3.6 | S13E57 | 4372 |
| 1983-12-06 | 23:19 | 23:40 | 26 | C2.9 | S14E57 | 4372 |
| 1983-12-13 | 01:43 | 01:49 | 39 | C2.9 | S14W20 | 4376 |
| 1983-12-06 | 20:12 | 20:21 | 20 | C2.7 | – | – |
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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46 flares of class C or larger in December 1983; by M/X count it ranks 345 of 565 months.