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Solar flares in February 2003
C-class82
M-class3
X-class0
LargestM1.22003-02-01
Sunspot number87.9NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2002 | 189 | 18 | 0 | M5.1 |
| February 2003 | 82 | 3 | 0 | M1.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-02-01 | 08:48 | 09:05 | 50 | M1.2 | – | 10276 |
| 2003-02-06 | 03:30 | 03:49 | 31 | M1.2 | – | – |
| 2003-02-14 | 09:07 | 09:18 | 16 | M1.2 | N13W86 | 10284 |
| 2003-02-01 | 19:32 | 19:54 | 38 | C9.9 | S14E89 | 10276 |
| 2003-02-12 | 01:42 | 01:51 | 20 | C8.7 | S05W43 | 10280 |
| 2003-02-22 | 09:24 | 09:29 | 7 | C5.8 | N16W05 | 10290 |
| 2003-02-14 | 05:18 | 05:26 | 15 | C5.2 | N13W84 | 10284 |
| 2003-02-14 | 02:02 | 02:12 | 16 | C5.0 | N13W82 | 10284 |
| 2003-02-22 | 05:04 | 05:10 | 9 | C4.7 | N16W02 | 10290 |
| 2003-02-15 | 07:27 | 08:10 | 95 | C4.5 | – | 10276 |
| 2003-02-21 | 19:46 | 19:50 | 8 | C4.3 | – | 10290 |
| 2003-02-22 | 01:55 | 02:03 | 12 | C4.3 | N11E02 | 10290 |
| 2003-02-21 | 15:08 | 15:14 | 10 | C3.7 | N15E07 | 10290 |
| 2003-02-06 | 02:07 | 02:12 | 7 | C3.4 | – | – |
| 2003-02-27 | 23:44 | 23:52 | 15 | C3.4 | – | – |
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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85 flares of class C or larger in February 2003; by M/X count it ranks 358 of 565 months.