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Solar flares in March 1997
C-class2
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC1.51997-03-28
Sunspot number13.7NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1996 | 1 | 0 | 0 | C1.5 |
| March 1997 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C1.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-03-28 | 01:09 | 01:20 | 26 | C1.5 | – | – |
| 1997-03-27 | 10:22 | 10:35 | 19 | C1.0 | – | – |
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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2 flares of class C or larger in March 1997; by M/X count it ranks 498 of 565 months.