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Solar flares in December 1996
C-class11
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC5.21996-12-01
Flares per day (C and above)
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-12-01 | 20:49 | 20:52 | 37 | C5.2 | S05W74 | 7999 |
| 1996-12-16 | 12:22 | 12:29 | 14 | C2.9 | – | – |
| 1996-12-02 | 14:23 | 14:33 | 19 | C2.7 | S05W90 | 7999 |
| 1996-12-19 | 15:38 | 16:10 | 127 | C2.3 | S14W09 | 8005 |
| 1996-12-24 | 13:03 | 13:11 | 20 | C2.1 | – | – |
| 1996-12-01 | 20:21 | 20:23 | 24 | C1.6 | S05W75 | 7999 |
| 1996-12-02 | 01:32 | 01:37 | 9 | C1.6 | – | – |
| 1996-12-02 | 17:36 | 17:40 | 30 | C1.6 | S05W90 | 7999 |
| 1996-12-02 | 01:05 | 01:13 | 14 | C1.2 | – | – |
| 1996-12-02 | 23:48 | 23:54 | 11 | C1.2 | S04W89 | 7999 |
| 1996-12-11 | 18:13 | 18:21 | 14 | C1.1 | – | – |
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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11 flares of class C or larger in December 1996; by M/X count it ranks 496 of 565 months.