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Solar flares in November 1998
C-class184
M-class15
X-class5
LargestX3.71998-11-22
Sunspot number99.5NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1997 | 119 | 11 | 3 | X9.4 |
| November 1998 | 184 | 15 | 5 | X3.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-11-22 | 06:30 | 06:42 | 19 | X3.7 | S27W82 | – |
| 1998-11-28 | 04:54 | 05:52 | 79 | X3.3 | N17E32 | – |
| 1998-11-22 | 16:10 | 16:23 | 22 | X2.5 | S30W89 | – |
| 1998-11-23 | 06:28 | 06:44 | 30 | X2.2 | S28W89 | 8384 |
| 1998-11-24 | 02:07 | 02:20 | 30 | X1.0 | – | – |
| 1998-11-05 | 19:00 | 19:55 | 72 | M8.4 | N22W18 | – |
| 1998-11-23 | 10:59 | 11:21 | 41 | M3.1 | – | – |
| 1998-11-08 | 17:04 | 17:12 | 18 | M2.7 | N19W58 | 8375 |
| 1998-11-07 | 11:02 | 11:06 | 7 | M2.4 | – | – |
| 1998-11-10 | 15:40 | 15:44 | 10 | M1.8 | N23W77 | – |
| 1998-11-22 | 21:40 | 22:15 | 55 | M1.8 | – | – |
| 1998-11-06 | 15:07 | 15:11 | 6 | M1.7 | N15W32 | 8371 |
| 1998-11-27 | 07:21 | 07:43 | 36 | M1.6 | S24E09 | – |
| 1998-11-05 | 13:30 | 13:36 | 9 | M1.5 | N15W17 | 8375 |
| 1998-11-08 | 22:37 | 22:56 | 33 | M1.1 | N21W61 | 8375 |
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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204 flares of class C or larger in November 1998; by M/X count it ranks 161 of 565 months.