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Solar flares in May 1993
C-class110
M-class5
X-class0
LargestM4.41993-05-14
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1992 | 61 | 5 | 0 | M7.4 |
| May 1993 | 110 | 5 | 0 | M4.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-05-14 | 21:54 | 22:53 | 184 | M4.4 | N19W48 | 7500 |
| 1993-05-07 | 20:47 | 21:10 | 194 | M1.6 | N14E41 | 7500 |
| 1993-05-28 | 02:55 | 03:10 | 27 | M1.4 | – | – |
| 1993-05-27 | 17:47 | 17:55 | 55 | M1.2 | N12E53 | 7515 |
| 1993-05-30 | 05:01 | 05:13 | 59 | M1.0 | N16E18 | 7515 |
| 1993-05-13 | 11:16 | 11:22 | 14 | C9.7 | – | – |
| 1993-05-28 | 01:58 | 02:05 | 12 | C9.1 | N14E49 | 7515 |
| 1993-05-04 | 02:50 | 03:21 | 37 | C8.3 | – | – |
| 1993-05-28 | 00:21 | 00:27 | 29 | C7.4 | N13E52 | 7515 |
| 1993-05-28 | 20:53 | 20:57 | 46 | C7.3 | N13E39 | 7515 |
| 1993-05-09 | 10:37 | 10:43 | 30 | C6.9 | N14E06 | 7496 |
| 1993-05-01 | 22:49 | 23:37 | 102 | C5.9 | – | – |
| 1993-05-27 | 00:54 | 01:10 | 52 | C5.4 | N10E59 | 7515 |
| 1993-05-07 | 12:29 | 12:34 | 33 | C5.3 | N16E41 | 7500 |
| 1993-05-27 | 21:31 | 21:35 | 33 | C5.2 | N12E51 | 7515 |
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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115 flares of class C or larger in May 1993; by M/X count it ranks 312 of 565 months.