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Solar flares in March 1989
C-class179
M-class88
X-class12
LargestX15.01989-03-06
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1988 | 131 | 21 | 0 | M8.2 |
| March 1989 | 179 | 88 | 12 | X15.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-03-06 | 13:54 | 14:10 | 150 | X15.0 | N35E69 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-17 | 17:29 | 17:37 | 123 | X6.5 | N33W60 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-10 | 18:48 | 19:12 | 190 | X4.5 | N31E22 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-09 | 15:15 | 15:32 | 79 | X4.0 | N30E38 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-16 | 15:24 | 15:26 | 81 | X3.6 | N36W47 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-07 | 14:47 | 14:54 | 58 | X1.8 | N32E65 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-23 | 19:25 | 19:48 | 121 | X1.5 | N18W28 | 5409 |
| 1989-03-16 | 20:35 | 20:40 | 56 | X1.4 | N29W60 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-11 | 19:33 | 19:40 | 43 | X1.3 | N27E10 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-11 | 15:35 | 15:38 | 26 | X1.2 | N28E13 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-13 | 02:59 | 03:20 | 78 | X1.2 | N28W02 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-14 | 16:46 | 17:26 | 302 | X1.1 | N33W21 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-11 | 08:29 | 09:05 | 75 | M9.7 | N29E16 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-15 | 16:43 | 16:53 | 116 | M8.4 | N31W40 | 5395 |
| 1989-03-09 | 10:03 | 10:11 | 21 | M7.6 | – | – |
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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279 flares of class C or larger in March 1989; by M/X count it ranks 8 of 565 months.