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Solar flares in June 2006
C-class3
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC2.82006-06-16
Sunspot number24.4NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | 54 | 4 | 0 | M4.0 |
| June 2006 | 3 | 0 | 0 | C2.8 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-06-16 | 14:17 | 14:23 | 11 | C2.8 | S08W90 | 10892 |
| 2006-06-15 | 04:15 | 04:31 | 39 | C2.6 | S05W90 | 10892 |
| 2006-06-15 | 08:08 | 08:23 | 31 | C1.4 | S05W90 | 10892 |
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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3 flares of class C or larger in June 2006; by M/X count it ranks 509 of 565 months.