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Solar flares in February 1986
C-class64
M-class10
X-class2
LargestX3.01986-02-04
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1985 | 16 | 0 | 0 | C4.5 |
| February 1986 | 64 | 10 | 2 | X3.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-02-04 | 07:35 | 07:40 | 62 | X3.0 | S03E21 | 4711 |
| 1986-02-06 | 06:18 | 06:25 | 95 | X1.7 | S04W06 | 4711 |
| 1986-02-04 | 10:27 | 10:33 | 22 | M6.4 | S02E68 | 4713 |
| 1986-02-14 | 09:10 | 09:21 | 75 | M6.4 | N01W76 | 4713 |
| 1986-02-07 | 10:11 | 10:29 | 74 | M5.2 | S10W20 | 4711 |
| 1986-02-05 | 12:37 | 12:53 | 84 | M3.0 | S07E06 | 4711 |
| 1986-02-03 | 20:37 | 20:40 | 123 | M2.3 | S09E26 | 4711 |
| 1986-02-15 | 10:16 | 12:03 | 164 | M2.2 | – | 4713 |
| 1986-02-15 | 13:04 | 13:09 | 12 | M1.6 | – | 4713 |
| 1986-02-11 | 03:32 | 03:38 | 68 | M1.1 | N00W30 | 4713 |
| 1986-02-11 | 23:03 | 23:21 | 62 | M1.0 | N00W43 | 4713 |
| 1986-02-13 | 02:46 | 02:46 | 8 | M1.0 | N04W63 | 4713 |
| 1986-02-10 | 20:25 | 20:48 | 59 | C9.5 | S01W32 | 4713 |
| 1986-02-15 | 05:03 | 05:03 | 4 | C9.3 | S02W80 | 4713 |
| 1986-02-15 | 09:50 | 09:51 | 5 | C7.4 | S02W83 | 4713 |
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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76 flares of class C or larger in February 1986; by M/X count it ranks 213 of 565 months.