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Solar flares in January 1993
C-class49
M-class2
X-class0
LargestM1.11993-01-02
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1992 | 191 | 39 | 1 | X1.0 |
| January 1993 | 49 | 2 | 0 | M1.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-01-02 | 04:19 | 04:36 | 47 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 1993-01-31 | 22:48 | 23:01 | 28 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 1993-01-13 | 02:57 | 03:14 | 36 | C9.2 | S08W77 | 7386 |
| 1993-01-02 | 23:41 | 23:45 | 41 | C8.4 | S13W79 | 7379 |
| 1993-01-04 | 00:43 | 00:55 | 18 | C6.6 | – | – |
| 1993-01-31 | 13:33 | 15:00 | 155 | C6.3 | – | – |
| 1993-01-12 | 14:32 | 14:37 | 22 | C6.1 | S12W18 | 7391 |
| 1993-01-17 | 14:31 | 14:32 | 10 | C5.0 | S09W65 | 7400 |
| 1993-01-04 | 20:11 | 20:25 | 18 | C4.6 | – | – |
| 1993-01-01 | 13:33 | 13:43 | 21 | C4.2 | – | – |
| 1993-01-16 | 09:47 | 09:57 | 36 | C4.1 | S09W50 | 7400 |
| 1993-01-12 | 08:55 | 09:01 | 42 | C3.4 | S14W15 | 7391 |
| 1993-01-13 | 12:12 | 12:14 | 28 | C3.4 | S14W30 | 7391 |
| 1993-01-13 | 08:29 | 09:14 | 71 | C3.3 | S09W09 | 7400 |
| 1993-01-01 | 11:50 | 11:54 | 7 | C3.2 | – | – |
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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51 flares of class C or larger in January 1993; by M/X count it ranks 390 of 565 months.