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Solar flares in May 1996
C-class6
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC3.11996-05-05
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | 16 | 0 | 0 | C4.9 |
| May 1996 | 6 | 0 | 0 | C3.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-05-05 | 18:22 | 18:38 | 31 | C3.1 | – | – |
| 1996-05-06 | 15:12 | 15:21 | 19 | C2.5 | – | – |
| 1996-05-07 | 03:46 | 04:19 | 43 | C2.3 | – | – |
| 1996-05-08 | 21:35 | 21:45 | 33 | C1.9 | S08E50 | 7962 |
| 1996-05-11 | 21:08 | 21:22 | 32 | C1.4 | S08E16 | 7962 |
| 1996-05-08 | 15:49 | 15:51 | 8 | C1.0 | S08E58 | 7962 |
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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6 flares of class C or larger in May 1996; by M/X count it ranks 493 of 565 months.