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Solar flares in February 1992
C-class241
M-class47
X-class2
LargestX3.31992-02-27
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1991 | 201 | 52 | 1 | X1.2 |
| February 1992 | 241 | 47 | 2 | X3.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-02-27 | 09:22 | 12:56 | 221 | X3.3 | N06W02 | 7070 |
| 1992-02-16 | 12:32 | 12:35 | 69 | X1.4 | S13W17 | 7056 |
| 1992-02-06 | 03:19 | 03:25 | 25 | M7.6 | N05W82 | 7030 |
| 1992-02-14 | 23:08 | 23:09 | 31 | M7.0 | S12E02 | 7056 |
| 1992-02-06 | 18:55 | 19:00 | 10 | M6.6 | S15W43 | 7039 |
| 1992-02-15 | 21:30 | 21:41 | 52 | M5.5 | S16W13 | 7056 |
| 1992-02-24 | 23:16 | 23:33 | 167 | M4.9 | N07E29 | 7070 |
| 1992-02-06 | 09:28 | 10:28 | 304 | M4.4 | S13W10 | 7042 |
| 1992-02-17 | 00:22 | 01:27 | 132 | M4.2 | S16W28 | 7056 |
| 1992-02-06 | 20:51 | 21:02 | 31 | M4.1 | – | – |
| 1992-02-07 | 11:40 | 12:02 | 157 | M3.7 | S20W53 | 7039 |
| 1992-02-19 | 03:29 | 03:34 | 29 | M3.7 | N04E85 | 7067 |
| 1992-02-21 | 02:20 | 04:30 | 190 | M3.2 | – | 7070 |
| 1992-02-05 | 20:15 | 20:16 | 9 | M3.1 | S15W31 | 7039 |
| 1992-02-21 | 10:17 | 10:17 | 24 | M2.5 | N04E73 | 7070 |
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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290 flares of class C or larger in February 1992; by M/X count it ranks 43 of 565 months.