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Solar flares in January 2008
C-class3
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC1.42008-01-07
Sunspot number5.2NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2007 | 12 | 0 | 0 | C6.3 |
| January 2008 | 3 | 0 | 0 | C1.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-01-07 | 14:49 | 15:27 | 67 | C1.4 | S08W02 | 10980 |
| 2008-01-02 | 06:51 | 10:00 | 272 | C1.2 | – | – |
| 2008-01-01 | 15:30 | 15:37 | 16 | C1.1 | S09E72 | 10980 |
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 January 2008; by M/X count it ranks 520 of 565 months.