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Solar flares in November 1986
C-class6
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC4.11986-11-13
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1985 | 1 | 0 | 0 | C1.3 |
| November 1986 | 6 | 0 | 0 | C4.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-11-13 | 16:56 | 17:19 | 38 | C4.1 | – | 4757 |
| 1986-11-01 | 07:58 | 09:05 | 91 | C3.1 | S00E12 | 4754 |
| 1986-11-20 | 08:58 | 09:16 | 46 | C1.6 | N25E09 | 4757 |
| 1986-11-13 | 09:32 | 09:44 | 19 | C1.3 | – | 4757 |
| 1986-11-02 | 07:30 | 07:36 | 11 | C1.1 | N04E15 | 4755 |
| 1986-11-06 | 05:32 | 05:38 | 19 | C1.0 | N01W36 | 4755 |
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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6 flares of class C or larger in November 1986; by M/X count it ranks 473 of 565 months.