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Solar flares in April 1996
C-class4
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM3.61996-04-22
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | 14 | 2 | 0 | M7.1 |
| April 1996 | 4 | 1 | 0 | M3.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-04-22 | 04:42 | 04:43 | 8 | M3.6 | S13W76 | 7958 |
| 1996-04-22 | 03:27 | 03:40 | 24 | C6.1 | S06W70 | 7958 |
| 1996-04-22 | 18:12 | 18:13 | 7 | C1.8 | S04W82 | 7958 |
| 1996-04-22 | 02:33 | 02:34 | 8 | C1.6 | S06W70 | 7958 |
| 1996-04-22 | 03:01 | 03:01 | 15 | C1.2 | S06W70 | 7958 |
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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5 flares of class C or larger in April 1996; by M/X count it ranks 419 of 565 months.