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Solar flares in March 1988
C-class131
M-class21
X-class0
LargestM8.21988-03-16
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1987 | 5 | 0 | 0 | C5.5 |
| March 1988 | 131 | 21 | 0 | M8.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-03-16 | 18:38 | 18:54 | 38 | M8.2 | S24E21 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-15 | 16:07 | 16:17 | 93 | M6.5 | S24E41 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-15 | 11:45 | 11:54 | 21 | M5.9 | S23E47 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-15 | 20:39 | 20:45 | 26 | M4.4 | S22E34 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-24 | 10:19 | 10:26 | 22 | M4.3 | N21E87 | 4975 |
| 1988-03-15 | 22:16 | 22:19 | 27 | M3.7 | S24E34 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-15 | 09:21 | 09:32 | 20 | M3.3 | S23E46 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-17 | 10:52 | 10:58 | 19 | M3.2 | – | – |
| 1988-03-15 | 08:24 | 08:26 | 22 | M2.5 | S22E45 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-16 | 05:48 | 05:55 | 35 | M2.4 | S22E29 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-16 | 21:29 | 21:33 | 34 | M2.4 | S24E21 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-17 | 20:46 | 20:53 | 73 | M2.2 | S23E07 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-16 | 14:12 | 14:14 | 12 | M2.1 | S24E25 | 4964 |
| 1988-03-25 | 05:15 | 05:26 | 33 | M2.0 | – | – |
| 1988-03-25 | 11:17 | 11:22 | 12 | M2.0 | S30W80 | 4964 |
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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152 flares of class C or larger in March 1988; by M/X count it ranks 154 of 565 months.