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Solar flares in January 2000
C-class118
M-class9
X-class0
LargestM3.92000-01-18
Sunspot number140.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | 201 | 10 | 0 | M5.2 |
| January 2000 | 118 | 9 | 0 | M3.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-01-18 | 17:07 | 17:27 | 37 | M3.9 | S19E11 | 8831 |
| 2000-01-10 | 13:31 | 13:50 | 37 | M3.3 | S13E69 | 8824 |
| 2000-01-12 | 01:32 | 01:38 | 11 | M2.8 | N13E81 | 8829 |
| 2000-01-11 | 04:13 | 04:24 | 25 | M1.5 | – | – |
| 2000-01-21 | 06:34 | 06:48 | 24 | M1.4 | – | – |
| 2000-01-12 | 00:04 | 00:17 | 37 | M1.2 | S12E47 | 8824 |
| 2000-01-18 | 09:36 | 10:08 | 72 | M1.2 | S14W38 | 8824 |
| 2000-01-12 | 20:36 | 20:49 | 22 | M1.1 | N13E67 | 8829 |
| 2000-01-22 | 17:55 | 18:01 | 12 | M1.0 | S23W50 | 8831 |
| 2000-01-10 | 08:51 | 09:12 | 37 | C9.7 | S14E70 | 8824 |
| 2000-01-11 | 01:06 | 01:16 | 22 | C9.4 | S12E58 | 8824 |
| 2000-01-11 | 21:43 | 21:50 | 14 | C7.5 | N12E89 | 8829 |
| 2000-01-17 | 00:21 | 00:28 | 17 | C7.1 | – | – |
| 2000-01-25 | 06:19 | 06:23 | 7 | C6.8 | S17W28 | 8842 |
| 2000-01-21 | 05:02 | 05:10 | 13 | C6.7 | – | – |
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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127 flares of class C or larger in January 2000; by M/X count it ranks 256 of 565 months.