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Solar flares in January 1996
C-class2
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC1.31996-01-05
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1995 | 37 | 0 | 0 | C9.3 |
| January 1996 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C1.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-01-05 | 03:56 | 03:56 | 5 | C1.3 | N10W30 | 7938 |
| 1996-01-03 | 17:07 | 17:07 | 8 | C1.0 | N11W12 | 7938 |
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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2 flares of class C or larger in January 1996; by M/X count it ranks 491 of 565 months.