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Solar flares in December 1986
C-class2
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC1.31986-12-09
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1985 | 11 | 0 | 0 | C7.3 |
| December 1986 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C1.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-12-09 | 08:35 | 09:17 | 82 | C1.3 | – | – |
| 1986-12-10 | 14:06 | 14:25 | 31 | C1.1 | – | – |
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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2 flares of class C or larger in December 1986; by M/X count it ranks 474 of 565 months.