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Solar flares in March 2014
C-class197
M-class21
X-class1
LargestX1.02014-03-29
Sunspot number141.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2013 | 49 | 3 | 0 | M1.6 |
| March 2014 | 197 | 21 | 1 | X1.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-29 | 17:35 | 17:48 | 19 | X1.0 | N11W32 | 12017 |
| 2014-03-12 | 22:28 | 22:34 | 11 | M9.3 | N15W78 | 11996 |
| 2014-03-11 | 03:44 | 03:50 | 12 | M3.5 | N13W55 | 11996 |
| 2014-03-28 | 23:44 | 23:51 | 14 | M2.6 | – | – |
| 2014-03-12 | 10:55 | 11:05 | 16 | M2.5 | N13W69 | 11996 |
| 2014-03-28 | 19:04 | 19:18 | 23 | M2.0 | N11W21 | 12017 |
| 2014-03-10 | 15:21 | 15:28 | 11 | M1.7 | S20E43 | 12002 |
| 2014-03-11 | 11:58 | 12:07 | 16 | M1.7 | – | – |
| 2014-03-20 | 03:42 | 03:56 | 26 | M1.7 | S12E75 | 12014 |
| 2014-03-08 | 23:26 | 23:41 | 24 | M1.4 | – | – |
| 2014-03-10 | 22:45 | 23:00 | 27 | M1.4 | N14W51 | 11996 |
| 2014-03-31 | 07:20 | 08:07 | 58 | M1.4 | S13W76 | 12014 |
| 2014-03-03 | 15:54 | 15:58 | 7 | M1.3 | N05W36 | 11989 |
| 2014-03-13 | 19:03 | 19:19 | 27 | M1.3 | – | – |
| 2014-03-10 | 00:19 | 00:26 | 14 | M1.2 | S19E52 | 12002 |
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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219 flares of class C or larger in March 2014; by M/X count it ranks 150 of 565 months.