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Solar flares in May 2007
C-class6
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC8.52007-05-02
Sunspot number19.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2006 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C1.1 |
| May 2007 | 6 | 0 | 0 | C8.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-05-02 | 23:28 | 23:48 | 34 | C8.5 | S14W17 | 10953 |
| 2007-05-05 | 12:20 | 12:47 | 37 | C4.2 | S14W46 | 10953 |
| 2007-05-16 | 17:19 | 17:41 | 34 | C2.9 | N00E35 | 10956 |
| 2007-05-30 | 13:49 | 14:15 | 65 | C2.0 | – | – |
| 2007-05-31 | 12:43 | 12:53 | 19 | C1.1 | – | 10960 |
| 2007-05-15 | 15:27 | 15:37 | 17 | C1.0 | N00E50 | 10956 |
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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6 flares of class C or larger in May 2007; by M/X count it ranks 516 of 565 months.