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Solar flares in November 1989
C-class157
M-class58
X-class9
LargestX4.01989-11-21
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1988 | 182 | 34 | 0 | M9.7 |
| November 1989 | 157 | 58 | 9 | X4.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-11-21 | 13:32 | 13:46 | 59 | X4.0 | S26W53 | 5793 |
| 1989-11-15 | 06:38 | 07:05 | 162 | X3.2 | N11W26 | 5786 |
| 1989-11-30 | 11:45 | 12:25 | 199 | X2.6 | N24W52 | 5800 |
| 1989-11-15 | 19:18 | 19:35 | 119 | X1.8 | N16W27 | 5786 |
| 1989-11-12 | 06:21 | 06:21 | 46 | X1.5 | N13W39 | 5783 |
| 1989-11-16 | 13:08 | 13:23 | 109 | X1.1 | N12W46 | 5786 |
| 1989-11-19 | 06:19 | 06:22 | 23 | X1.1 | S24W25 | 5793 |
| 1989-11-20 | 21:25 | 21:28 | 36 | X1.0 | S27W43 | 5793 |
| 1989-11-25 | 22:55 | 23:24 | 220 | X1.0 | N30E05 | 5800 |
| 1989-11-08 | 18:56 | 19:02 | 100 | M9.8 | N20W57 | 5769 |
| 1989-11-06 | 13:43 | 13:45 | 50 | M9.2 | N20E19 | 5776 |
| 1989-11-07 | 19:30 | 20:51 | 154 | M8.2 | N13E71 | 5786 |
| 1989-11-18 | 15:51 | 16:39 | 189 | M7.3 | S30W16 | 5793 |
| 1989-11-07 | 02:55 | 03:20 | 80 | M6.9 | N20E13 | 5776 |
| 1989-11-10 | 16:44 | 16:50 | 83 | M5.6 | N25W81 | 5769 |
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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224 flares of class C or larger in November 1989; by M/X count it ranks 22 of 565 months.