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Solar flares in May 2006
C-class2
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC1.12006-05-04
Sunspot number39.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | 91 | 13 | 0 | M8.0 |
| May 2006 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C1.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-04 | 17:34 | 17:45 | 41 | C1.1 | S10E90 | 10881 |
| 2006-05-01 | 14:33 | 15:35 | 121 | C1.0 | – | 10875 |
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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2 flares of class C or larger in May 2006; by M/X count it ranks 508 of 565 months.