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Solar flares in July 1986
C-class5
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC3.41986-07-11
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1985 | 42 | 2 | 0 | M4.5 |
| July 1986 | 5 | 0 | 0 | C3.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-07-11 | 04:50 | 04:58 | 71 | C3.4 | N08W55 | 4736 |
| 1986-07-13 | 03:52 | 04:01 | 18 | C2.4 | – | 4736 |
| 1986-07-13 | 01:21 | 02:11 | 107 | C1.9 | – | – |
| 1986-07-10 | 13:42 | 13:46 | 8 | C1.7 | – | – |
| 1986-07-14 | 00:09 | 01:09 | 225 | C1.0 | N06W90 | 4736 |
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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5 flares of class C or larger in July 1986; by M/X count it ranks 471 of 565 months.