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Solar flares in April 2008
C-class2
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC1.22008-04-03
Sunspot number4.9NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | 1 | 0 | 0 | C2.8 |
| April 2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C1.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-04-03 | 01:12 | 01:24 | 24 | C1.2 | – | – |
| 2008-04-03 | 02:18 | 02:27 | 17 | C1.2 | – | – |
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 April 2008; by M/X count it ranks 521 of 565 months.