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Solar flares in May 2010
C-class8
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM1.22010-05-05
Sunspot number20.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-05-05 | 17:13 | 17:19 | 9 | M1.2 | N42W37 | 11069 |
| 2010-05-08 | 04:51 | 04:59 | 13 | C9.3 | N38W65 | 11069 |
| 2010-05-05 | 11:37 | 11:52 | 21 | C8.8 | – | 11069 |
| 2010-05-01 | 01:34 | 01:39 | 9 | C5.7 | N23E73 | 11067 |
| 2010-05-04 | 16:15 | 16:29 | 19 | C3.6 | N41W23 | 11069 |
| 2010-05-08 | 20:04 | 20:11 | 14 | C2.4 | – | 11069 |
| 2010-05-05 | 07:09 | 07:16 | 11 | C2.3 | – | 11069 |
| 2010-05-07 | 07:29 | 07:42 | 33 | C2.0 | N40W54 | 11069 |
| 2010-05-08 | 11:40 | 11:50 | 15 | C1.8 | – | 11069 |
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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9 flares of class C or larger in May 2010; by M/X count it ranks 432 of 565 months.