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Solar flares in November 1997
C-class119
M-class11
X-class3
LargestX9.41997-11-06
Sunspot number53.5NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1996 | 28 | 1 | 0 | M1.0 |
| November 1997 | 119 | 11 | 3 | X9.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-11-06 | 11:49 | 11:55 | 12 | X9.4 | S18W63 | 8100 |
| 1997-11-27 | 12:59 | 13:17 | 21 | X2.6 | N17E63 | 8113 |
| 1997-11-04 | 05:52 | 05:58 | 10 | X2.1 | S14W33 | 8100 |
| 1997-11-28 | 04:53 | 05:03 | 30 | M6.8 | N15E61 | 8113 |
| 1997-11-29 | 22:28 | 22:44 | 25 | M6.4 | N15E38 | 8113 |
| 1997-11-03 | 10:18 | 10:29 | 16 | M4.2 | – | – |
| 1997-11-04 | 02:32 | 02:42 | 31 | M4.1 | S20W25 | 8100 |
| 1997-11-26 | 18:31 | 18:37 | 9 | M2.0 | N16E75 | 8113 |
| 1997-11-24 | 19:30 | 19:50 | 40 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 1997-11-03 | 09:03 | 09:10 | 10 | M1.4 | S20W15 | 8100 |
| 1997-11-04 | 01:27 | 01:35 | 13 | M1.3 | S20W24 | 8100 |
| 1997-11-28 | 19:54 | 20:09 | 23 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 1997-11-03 | 19:55 | 20:16 | 41 | M1.0 | S19W20 | 8100 |
| 1997-11-15 | 22:31 | 22:46 | 39 | M1.0 | N20E64 | 8108 |
| 1997-11-25 | 19:36 | 19:52 | 23 | C9.3 | – | – |
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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133 flares of class C or larger in November 1997; by M/X count it ranks 194 of 565 months.