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Solar flares in August 1984
C-class9
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM1.11984-08-18
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1983 | 176 | 18 | 0 | M8.5 |
| August 1984 | 9 | 1 | 0 | M1.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-08-18 | 22:39 | 23:05 | 48 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 1984-08-26 | 02:05 | 02:16 | 36 | C3.5 | S06E63 | 4567 |
| 1984-08-19 | 02:00 | 02:22 | 34 | C2.1 | – | 4563 |
| 1984-08-26 | 05:24 | 05:27 | 19 | C2.0 | S06E62 | 4567 |
| 1984-08-26 | 08:40 | 08:50 | 35 | C2.0 | S05E64 | 4567 |
| 1984-08-19 | 03:39 | 03:47 | 27 | C1.7 | – | – |
| 1984-08-24 | 20:54 | 21:05 | 26 | C1.1 | S14W07 | 4565 |
| 1984-08-14 | 06:51 | 06:53 | 45 | C1.0 | N09W55 | 4554 |
| 1984-08-18 | 05:43 | 05:59 | 25 | C1.0 | – | – |
| 1984-08-27 | 21:16 | 21:29 | 17 | C1.0 | – | – |
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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10 flares of class C or larger in August 1984; by M/X count it ranks 407 of 565 months.