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Solar flares in May 2000
C-class195
M-class20
X-class0
LargestM6.82000-05-04
Sunspot number188.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | 161 | 16 | 0 | M7.6 |
| May 2000 | 195 | 20 | 0 | M6.8 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-05-04 | 10:57 | 11:08 | 17 | M6.8 | – | – |
| 2000-05-15 | 08:16 | 09:02 | 72 | M4.4 | – | 9002 |
| 2000-05-16 | 15:46 | 15:51 | 11 | M3.2 | N19E61 | 9002 |
| 2000-05-02 | 14:42 | 14:51 | 14 | M2.8 | N22W68 | 8971 |
| 2000-05-04 | 04:32 | 04:51 | 30 | M2.8 | S14W90 | 8977 |
| 2000-05-18 | 15:52 | 15:57 | 7 | M2.7 | N23E30 | 9002 |
| 2000-05-15 | 18:48 | 18:53 | 8 | M2.0 | N21E73 | 9002 |
| 2000-05-05 | 15:19 | 16:21 | 129 | M1.5 | – | – |
| 2000-05-15 | 04:47 | 04:57 | 21 | M1.3 | – | – |
| 2000-05-24 | 05:30 | 05:46 | 30 | M1.3 | S27W85 | 8996 |
| 2000-05-15 | 10:46 | 10:50 | 10 | M1.2 | – | – |
| 2000-05-15 | 17:57 | 18:02 | 8 | M1.2 | S21W69 | 8993 |
| 2000-05-01 | 10:16 | 10:27 | 18 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2000-05-03 | 22:47 | 23:10 | 34 | M1.1 | – | 8970 |
| 2000-05-13 | 01:21 | 01:44 | 79 | M1.1 | – | – |
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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215 flares of class C or larger in May 2000; by M/X count it ranks 162 of 565 months.