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Solar flares in March 1998
C-class110
M-class10
X-class0
LargestM2.71998-03-15
Sunspot number81.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C1.5 |
| March 1998 | 110 | 10 | 0 | M2.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-03-15 | 21:41 | 21:46 | 9 | M2.7 | – | – |
| 1998-03-27 | 21:49 | 22:27 | 88 | M2.4 | S24W03 | 8185 |
| 1998-03-23 | 02:39 | 03:09 | 50 | M2.3 | – | – |
| 1998-03-15 | 19:11 | 19:20 | 16 | M1.8 | S21W03 | 8179 |
| 1998-03-26 | 12:46 | 12:59 | 54 | M1.8 | S26E19 | 8185 |
| 1998-03-19 | 01:17 | 01:27 | 17 | M1.2 | N18E58 | 8183 |
| 1998-03-16 | 01:02 | 01:06 | 10 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 1998-03-22 | 06:51 | 07:00 | 17 | M1.1 | S28E69 | 8185 |
| 1998-03-15 | 16:04 | 16:16 | 22 | M1.0 | S23W03 | 8179 |
| 1998-03-18 | 10:50 | 11:12 | 44 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 1998-03-24 | 10:22 | 11:14 | 115 | C8.0 | – | – |
| 1998-03-16 | 10:57 | 11:57 | 74 | C7.9 | S23W11 | 8179 |
| 1998-03-15 | 17:34 | 17:37 | 8 | C7.5 | S23W01 | 8179 |
| 1998-03-19 | 05:08 | 05:17 | 22 | C7.5 | N18E54 | 8183 |
| 1998-03-16 | 17:14 | 17:53 | 47 | C6.4 | S23W13 | 8179 |
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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120 flares of class C or larger in March 1998; by M/X count it ranks 237 of 565 months.