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Solar flares in July 2010
C-class10
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC3.62010-07-14
Sunspot number23.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C2.7 |
| July 2010 | 10 | 0 | 0 | C3.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-14 | 20:31 | 20:47 | 51 | C3.6 | – | – |
| 2010-07-09 | 19:26 | 19:51 | 50 | C3.4 | N19E72 | 11087 |
| 2010-07-28 | 20:33 | 20:42 | 16 | C2.8 | – | 11089 |
| 2010-07-13 | 10:43 | 10:51 | 12 | C2.6 | N19E26 | 11087 |
| 2010-07-17 | 17:27 | 18:01 | 53 | C2.4 | – | 11087 |
| 2010-07-27 | 04:12 | 04:24 | 22 | C2.2 | – | 11089 |
| 2010-07-09 | 08:53 | 09:01 | 14 | C1.8 | – | 11087 |
| 2010-07-14 | 12:11 | 12:30 | 46 | C1.4 | – | – |
| 2010-07-20 | 13:38 | 13:45 | 12 | C1.4 | S21E55 | 11089 |
| 2010-07-08 | 22:03 | 22:16 | 21 | C1.2 | – | 11087 |
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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10 flares of class C or larger in July 2010; by M/X count it ranks 530 of 565 months.