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Solar flares in July 1997
C-class3
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC1.21997-07-12
Sunspot number17.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | 20 | 2 | 1 | X2.6 |
| July 1997 | 3 | 0 | 0 | C1.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-07-12 | 15:14 | 15:24 | 22 | C1.2 | – | – |
| 1997-07-25 | 05:15 | 05:41 | 103 | C1.2 | N20W44 | – |
| 1997-07-25 | 18:45 | 18:55 | 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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3 flares of class C or larger in July 1997; by M/X count it ranks 500 of 565 months.