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Solar flares in August 2000
C-class135
M-class3
X-class0
LargestM1.92000-08-08
Sunspot number167.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | 182 | 23 | 2 | X1.4 |
| August 2000 | 135 | 3 | 0 | M1.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-08-08 | 11:05 | 11:15 | 44 | M1.9 | – | – |
| 2000-08-25 | 14:21 | 14:35 | 25 | M1.4 | S15E67 | 9143 |
| 2000-08-12 | 09:45 | 09:56 | 24 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2000-08-14 | 04:56 | 05:08 | 33 | C8.1 | N06W75 | 9126 |
| 2000-08-02 | 08:05 | 08:15 | 21 | C7.9 | – | – |
| 2000-08-27 | 17:33 | 17:40 | 16 | C6.9 | S17E40 | 9143 |
| 2000-08-12 | 02:09 | 02:16 | 12 | C6.5 | N21E53 | 9125 |
| 2000-08-24 | 08:45 | 09:17 | 48 | C6.2 | – | – |
| 2000-08-14 | 07:37 | 07:42 | 8 | C5.5 | S06E47 | 9129 |
| 2000-08-18 | 04:16 | 04:45 | 64 | C5.5 | S38W58 | 9127 |
| 2000-08-19 | 04:32 | 04:39 | 10 | C5.0 | N22W37 | 9125 |
| 2000-08-17 | 08:31 | 08:37 | 14 | C4.9 | N17E28 | 9131 |
| 2000-08-12 | 02:00 | 02:04 | 7 | C4.8 | N14W43 | 9114 |
| 2000-08-29 | 22:35 | 00:08 | 113 | C4.2 | – | – |
| 2000-08-13 | 13:38 | 13:48 | 19 | C4.1 | N22E33 | 9125 |
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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138 flares of class C or larger in August 2000; by M/X count it ranks 356 of 565 months.