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Solar flares in November 2012
C-class93
M-class7
X-class0
LargestM3.52012-11-21
Sunspot number89.2NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2011 | 171 | 13 | 1 | X1.9 |
| November 2012 | 93 | 7 | 0 | M3.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-11-21 | 15:10 | 15:30 | 28 | M3.5 | – | – |
| 2012-11-28 | 21:20 | 21:36 | 28 | M2.2 | S14W57 | 11620 |
| 2012-11-20 | 12:36 | 12:41 | 10 | M1.7 | – | – |
| 2012-11-20 | 19:21 | 19:28 | 11 | M1.6 | N07E15 | 11618 |
| 2012-11-27 | 15:52 | 15:57 | 11 | M1.6 | N05W73 | 11618 |
| 2012-11-21 | 06:45 | 06:56 | 23 | M1.4 | N06E10 | 11618 |
| 2012-11-27 | 21:05 | 21:26 | 25 | M1.0 | S14W41 | 11620 |
| 2012-11-16 | 15:34 | 15:39 | 8 | C8.4 | – | – |
| 2012-11-19 | 02:20 | 02:28 | 11 | C7.1 | – | – |
| 2012-11-27 | 23:02 | 23:24 | 35 | C7.1 | – | – |
| 2012-11-15 | 04:22 | 04:37 | 29 | C6.3 | – | – |
| 2012-11-27 | 02:10 | 02:15 | 10 | C5.9 | – | – |
| 2012-11-29 | 11:40 | 12:05 | 39 | C5.8 | S17W64 | 11620 |
| 2012-11-18 | 03:55 | 04:07 | 20 | C5.7 | N08W07 | 11615 |
| 2012-11-30 | 16:56 | 17:48 | 74 | C5.4 | S14W85 | 11620 |
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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100 flares of class C or larger in November 2012; by M/X count it ranks 285 of 565 months.