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Solar flares in August 2007
C-class3
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC2.02007-08-24
Sunspot number9.9NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2006 | 25 | 0 | 0 | C4.7 |
| August 2007 | 3 | 0 | 0 | C2.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-08-24 | 07:49 | 07:54 | 9 | C2.0 | S06E41 | 10969 |
| 2007-08-06 | 09:05 | 09:13 | 16 | C1.5 | S05E41 | 10966 |
| 2007-08-06 | 15:24 | 15:37 | 22 | C1.1 | S08E38 | 10966 |
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 August 2007; by M/X count it ranks 518 of 565 months.