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Solar flares in December 1992
C-class143
M-class4
X-class0
LargestM2.61992-12-31
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1991 | 247 | 91 | 3 | X3.5 |
| December 1992 | 143 | 4 | 0 | M2.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-12-31 | 02:14 | 02:14 | 15 | M2.6 | N17W80 | 7376 |
| 1992-12-04 | 17:33 | 17:34 | 2 | M2.1 | N19W67 | 7352 |
| 1992-12-01 | 17:45 | 17:54 | 60 | M1.5 | N21W37 | 7352 |
| 1992-12-04 | 11:18 | 11:39 | 28 | M1.4 | N19W71 | 7352 |
| 1992-12-17 | 11:24 | 11:32 | 16 | C7.0 | – | – |
| 1992-12-15 | 01:11 | 01:12 | 40 | C6.9 | S20W37 | 7360 |
| 1992-12-09 | 11:24 | 11:26 | 23 | C6.3 | S06E60 | 7363 |
| 1992-12-31 | 19:26 | 19:29 | 30 | C6.3 | S10W49 | 7379 |
| 1992-12-07 | 13:37 | 14:34 | 73 | C6.0 | – | – |
| 1992-12-04 | 04:11 | 04:13 | 14 | C5.8 | N21W76 | 7352 |
| 1992-12-13 | 08:08 | 08:53 | 90 | C5.6 | – | – |
| 1992-12-08 | 06:51 | 06:56 | 9 | C5.4 | – | – |
| 1992-12-30 | 09:38 | 09:39 | 11 | C5.2 | N15W69 | 7376 |
| 1992-12-01 | 10:21 | 10:21 | 15 | C5.1 | N22W37 | 7352 |
| 1992-12-01 | 20:18 | 20:24 | 29 | C5.1 | N22W40 | 7352 |
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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147 flares of class C or larger in December 1992; by M/X count it ranks 324 of 565 months.