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Solar flares in January 1998
C-class33
M-class5
X-class0
LargestM2.71998-01-03
Sunspot number51.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-01-03 | 16:49 | 17:19 | 54 | M2.7 | – | – |
| 1998-01-25 | 21:26 | 21:36 | 17 | M1.3 | N22E53 | 8145 |
| 1998-01-02 | 12:57 | 13:03 | 10 | M1.2 | S19W86 | 8124 |
| 1998-01-01 | 03:01 | 03:07 | 10 | M1.1 | S22W70 | 8124 |
| 1998-01-15 | 14:28 | 14:38 | 19 | M1.0 | S22W33 | 8131 |
| 1998-01-15 | 09:26 | 09:36 | 40 | C6.8 | S24W29 | 8131 |
| 1998-01-02 | 09:13 | 09:28 | 22 | C6.4 | – | – |
| 1998-01-26 | 22:19 | 22:35 | 28 | C5.4 | S17W55 | 8142 |
| 1998-01-12 | 02:02 | 02:20 | 28 | C4.5 | S26E12 | 8131 |
| 1998-01-12 | 04:40 | 04:53 | 22 | C4.4 | – | – |
| 1998-01-14 | 15:26 | 16:03 | 49 | C4.1 | S26W18 | 8131 |
| 1998-01-12 | 11:28 | 11:42 | 21 | C3.8 | S24E10 | 8131 |
| 1998-01-03 | 12:12 | 12:20 | 14 | C3.3 | – | – |
| 1998-01-12 | 15:09 | 15:18 | 15 | C3.2 | S24E07 | 8131 |
| 1998-01-25 | 19:14 | 19:36 | 37 | C2.8 | S18W39 | 8142 |
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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38 flares of class C or larger in January 1998; by M/X count it ranks 314 of 565 months.