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Solar flares in May 1992
C-class61
M-class5
X-class0
LargestM7.41992-05-08
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1991 | 206 | 39 | 2 | X2.8 |
| May 1992 | 61 | 5 | 0 | M7.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-05-08 | 15:37 | 15:40 | 199 | M7.4 | S26E08 | 7154 |
| 1992-05-05 | 19:41 | 20:15 | 83 | M1.4 | S25E45 | 7154 |
| 1992-05-04 | 11:22 | 11:45 | 71 | M1.3 | S07W57 | 7150 |
| 1992-05-04 | 20:09 | 20:13 | 219 | M1.1 | S27E54 | 7154 |
| 1992-05-03 | 08:51 | 08:57 | 44 | M1.0 | S07W38 | 7150 |
| 1992-05-05 | 21:19 | 23:26 | 156 | C7.7 | S25E46 | 7154 |
| 1992-05-05 | 23:19 | 23:21 | 4 | C7.1 | S27E42 | 7154 |
| 1992-05-27 | 14:35 | 14:37 | 26 | C7.1 | N23W59 | 7172 |
| 1992-05-19 | 11:31 | 11:38 | 16 | C6.7 | – | – |
| 1992-05-05 | 19:02 | 19:12 | 59 | C6.4 | S07W75 | 7150 |
| 1992-05-04 | 04:32 | 04:44 | 68 | C5.2 | S09W50 | 7150 |
| 1992-05-18 | 19:29 | 19:40 | 27 | C4.1 | N21E56 | 7172 |
| 1992-05-02 | 04:47 | 04:52 | 35 | C3.8 | N08W27 | 7146 |
| 1992-05-06 | 10:00 | 10:04 | 6 | C3.8 | – | – |
| 1992-05-21 | 18:05 | 18:10 | 37 | C3.6 | N22E17 | 7172 |
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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66 flares of class C or larger in May 1992; by M/X count it ranks 311 of 565 months.