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Solar flares in November 1996
C-class28
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM1.01996-11-29
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1995 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C8.7 |
| November 1996 | 28 | 1 | 0 | M1.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-11-29 | 20:36 | 20:43 | 33 | M1.0 | S06W47 | 7999 |
| 1996-11-30 | 20:49 | 21:01 | 130 | C8.6 | S05W63 | 7999 |
| 1996-11-25 | 00:17 | 00:22 | 35 | C8.0 | S03E16 | 7999 |
| 1996-11-25 | 18:25 | 18:32 | 66 | C5.8 | S03E08 | 7999 |
| 1996-11-25 | 12:41 | 13:13 | 72 | C4.6 | S02E11 | 7999 |
| 1996-11-24 | 16:29 | 16:47 | 33 | C3.3 | – | – |
| 1996-11-24 | 17:34 | 17:54 | 27 | C2.8 | S02E22 | 7999 |
| 1996-11-25 | 05:12 | 05:19 | 13 | C2.4 | – | – |
| 1996-11-24 | 06:57 | 07:19 | 27 | C2.0 | – | – |
| 1996-11-24 | 20:04 | 20:04 | 5 | C1.8 | S03E24 | 7999 |
| 1996-11-25 | 02:40 | 02:46 | 10 | C1.8 | – | – |
| 1996-11-25 | 12:25 | 12:25 | 13 | C1.8 | N06W63 | 7997 |
| 1996-11-25 | 11:09 | 11:13 | 10 | C1.6 | – | – |
| 1996-11-26 | 13:07 | 13:09 | 80 | C1.6 | S03W02 | 7999 |
| 1996-11-24 | 22:19 | 22:22 | 7 | C1.5 | – | – |
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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29 flares of class C or larger in November 1996; by M/X count it ranks 420 of 565 months.