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Solar flares in January 1988
C-class99
M-class2
X-class1
LargestX1.41988-01-02
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1987 | 3 | 0 | 0 | C2.5 |
| January 1988 | 99 | 2 | 1 | X1.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-01-02 | 21:11 | 21:35 | 178 | X1.4 | S34W18 | 4912 |
| 1988-01-14 | 14:58 | 15:02 | 36 | M2.3 | S37E48 | 4925 |
| 1988-01-14 | 09:05 | 09:19 | 40 | M1.3 | S38E51 | 4925 |
| 1988-01-28 | 08:47 | 08:47 | 18 | C9.6 | N18W65 | 4934 |
| 1988-01-13 | 11:51 | 11:54 | 20 | C8.3 | S19E80 | 4927 |
| 1988-01-09 | 15:24 | 15:33 | 38 | C6.7 | S23E26 | 4921 |
| 1988-01-28 | 06:06 | 06:06 | 14 | C6.6 | N19W64 | 4934 |
| 1988-01-09 | 02:21 | 02:26 | 23 | C6.5 | S24E33 | 4921 |
| 1988-01-26 | 11:00 | 11:03 | 13 | C5.9 | S21W90 | 4927 |
| 1988-01-14 | 07:39 | 07:43 | 11 | C5.6 | N21W74 | 4923 |
| 1988-01-14 | 13:34 | 13:42 | 19 | C5.6 | – | – |
| 1988-01-13 | 15:59 | 16:07 | 40 | C4.5 | N32W32 | 4919 |
| 1988-01-27 | 23:04 | 23:05 | 12 | C4.3 | N20W61 | 4934 |
| 1988-01-11 | 22:27 | 23:08 | 52 | C4.0 | N31W13 | 4919 |
| 1988-01-09 | 23:17 | 23:58 | 108 | C3.7 | N33E15 | 4919 |
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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102 flares of class C or larger in January 1988; by M/X count it ranks 348 of 565 months.