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Solar flares in January 1989
C-class143
M-class95
X-class7
LargestX2.31989-01-13
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1988 | 99 | 2 | 1 | X1.4 |
| January 1989 | 143 | 95 | 7 | X2.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-01-13 | 08:29 | 10:18 | 136 | X2.3 | S31W05 | 5312 |
| 1989-01-14 | 02:54 | 04:14 | 145 | X2.1 | S32W10 | 5312 |
| 1989-01-10 | 20:23 | 20:31 | 63 | X1.4 | S31E30 | 5312 |
| 1989-01-18 | 07:02 | 07:07 | 11 | X1.4 | S30W65 | 5312 |
| 1989-01-07 | 04:12 | 04:36 | 32 | X1.1 | S34E80 | 5312 |
| 1989-01-14 | 21:45 | 22:39 | 84 | X1.1 | S29W26 | 5312 |
| 1989-01-27 | 19:08 | 19:17 | 98 | X1.1 | S19E17 | 5330 |
| 1989-01-18 | 18:04 | 18:15 | 146 | M9.6 | N26W23 | 5317 |
| 1989-01-13 | 12:25 | 12:42 | 182 | M9.2 | – | – |
| 1989-01-18 | 08:51 | 09:12 | 61 | M9.0 | S30W68 | 5312 |
| 1989-01-06 | 17:53 | 18:12 | 53 | M8.9 | S31E78 | 5312 |
| 1989-01-20 | 15:10 | 15:58 | 116 | M8.4 | – | 5312 |
| 1989-01-09 | 19:14 | 19:21 | 126 | M8.3 | S32E45 | 5312 |
| 1989-01-08 | 12:28 | 12:47 | 67 | M7.5 | S33E58 | 5312 |
| 1989-01-31 | 12:01 | 12:09 | 132 | M7.5 | S23E08 | 5334 |
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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245 flares of class C or larger in January 1989; by M/X count it ranks 7 of 565 months.