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Solar flares in February 1989
C-class161
M-class35
X-class3
LargestX3.91989-02-09
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1988 | 12 | 1 | 0 | M1.1 |
| February 1989 | 161 | 35 | 3 | X3.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-02-09 | 12:56 | 13:04 | 80 | X3.9 | N22E39 | 5355 |
| 1989-02-10 | 04:07 | 04:37 | 116 | X1.8 | N19E30 | 5355 |
| 1989-02-04 | 09:50 | 10:17 | 171 | X1.5 | N29E73 | 5354 |
| 1989-02-08 | 19:53 | 20:23 | 43 | M9.8 | N30E27 | 5354 |
| 1989-02-21 | 23:43 | 23:57 | 52 | M7.9 | S13W20 | 5368 |
| 1989-02-01 | 10:01 | 10:34 | 107 | M3.9 | S21W02 | 5334 |
| 1989-02-21 | 18:17 | 18:19 | 55 | M3.9 | S12W19 | 5368 |
| 1989-02-16 | 04:24 | 04:28 | 15 | M3.5 | N26W69 | 5354 |
| 1989-02-03 | 14:08 | 14:16 | 16 | M3.0 | S20W72 | 5336 |
| 1989-02-11 | 11:39 | 12:23 | 119 | M2.9 | N22E15 | 5355 |
| 1989-02-21 | 21:58 | 22:03 | 16 | M2.8 | S13W24 | 5368 |
| 1989-02-21 | 12:07 | 12:17 | 95 | M2.7 | S12W14 | 5368 |
| 1989-02-16 | 16:31 | 16:33 | 54 | M2.5 | S13E49 | 5368 |
| 1989-02-20 | 13:56 | 13:57 | 60 | M2.5 | S15W04 | 5368 |
| 1989-02-16 | 03:40 | 03:48 | 93 | M2.2 | N22E26 | 5362 |
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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199 flares of class C or larger in February 1989; by M/X count it ranks 77 of 565 months.