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Solar flares in August 1996
C-class8
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC4.51996-08-22
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1995 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C1.9 |
| August 1996 | 8 | 0 | 0 | C4.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-08-22 | 08:50 | 10:03 | 136 | C4.5 | – | – |
| 1996-08-22 | 08:05 | 08:45 | 47 | C3.6 | – | – |
| 1996-08-06 | 19:10 | 22:01 | 213 | C1.5 | – | – |
| 1996-08-22 | 07:34 | 07:50 | 22 | C1.5 | – | – |
| 1996-08-28 | 08:00 | 08:06 | 10 | C1.3 | – | – |
| 1996-08-23 | 07:14 | 07:21 | 16 | C1.2 | – | – |
| 1996-08-07 | 23:16 | 23:20 | 8 | C1.0 | – | – |
| 1996-08-25 | 12:28 | 12:35 | 9 | C1.0 | S13E64 | 7986 |
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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8 flares of class C or larger in August 1996; by M/X count it ranks 495 of 565 months.