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Solar flares in March 1996
C-class1
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC1.51996-03-23
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1995 | 21 | 1 | 0 | M2.4 |
| March 1996 | 1 | 0 | 0 | C1.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-03-23 | 19:43 | 19:43 | 14 | C1.5 | N06W01 | 7953 |
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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1 flares of class C or larger in March 1996; by M/X count it ranks 492 of 565 months.