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Solar flares in May 1995
C-class16
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC4.91995-05-16
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | 1 | 0 | 0 | C1.6 |
| May 1995 | 16 | 0 | 0 | C4.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-05-16 | 11:24 | 11:26 | 11 | C4.9 | N10W31 | 7870 |
| 1995-05-16 | 09:56 | 10:00 | 19 | C3.3 | N09W28 | 7870 |
| 1995-05-13 | 07:25 | 07:28 | 15 | C2.6 | N09E11 | 7870 |
| 1995-05-16 | 08:11 | 08:14 | 18 | C2.6 | N09W28 | 7870 |
| 1995-05-14 | 01:30 | 01:31 | 4 | C2.4 | N11E04 | 7870 |
| 1995-05-16 | 23:34 | 23:36 | 76 | C2.2 | S14W06 | 7871 |
| 1995-05-16 | 19:00 | 19:14 | 31 | C1.9 | S14W04 | 7871 |
| 1995-05-16 | 12:57 | 13:04 | 15 | C1.6 | – | – |
| 1995-05-13 | 12:49 | 12:52 | 19 | C1.3 | N08E11 | 7870 |
| 1995-05-18 | 15:03 | 15:10 | 11 | C1.3 | S17W27 | 7871 |
| 1995-05-16 | 06:07 | 06:08 | 9 | C1.2 | N09W27 | 7870 |
| 1995-05-16 | 17:24 | 17:25 | 7 | C1.2 | N12W35 | 7870 |
| 1995-05-17 | 05:31 | 05:38 | 12 | C1.2 | – | – |
| 1995-05-15 | 19:35 | 19:48 | 21 | C1.1 | – | – |
| 1995-05-15 | 20:59 | 21:10 | 22 | C1.1 | – | – |
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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16 flares of class C or larger in May 1995; by M/X count it ranks 485 of 565 months.