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Solar flares in May 2014
C-class125
M-class5
X-class0
LargestM5.32014-05-08
Sunspot number116.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | 173 | 14 | 4 | X3.2 |
| May 2014 | 125 | 5 | 0 | M5.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-08 | 09:20 | 10:07 | 58 | M5.3 | N08E54 | 12056 |
| 2014-05-06 | 08:41 | 09:03 | 40 | M1.8 | S15W84 | 12051 |
| 2014-05-24 | 18:26 | 18:35 | 18 | M1.3 | – | – |
| 2014-05-07 | 16:07 | 16:29 | 56 | M1.2 | N15E50 | 12055 |
| 2014-05-06 | 22:01 | 22:09 | 19 | M1.0 | S10W57 | 12051 |
| 2014-05-04 | 12:22 | 12:31 | 17 | C9.2 | – | – |
| 2014-05-10 | 06:51 | 07:02 | 39 | C8.7 | N11E15 | 12055 |
| 2014-05-14 | 12:59 | 15:04 | 149 | C8.3 | N09E49 | 12063 |
| 2014-05-05 | 18:10 | 18:28 | 25 | C8.0 | – | – |
| 2014-05-09 | 14:50 | 15:01 | 32 | C7.8 | S12E69 | 12058 |
| 2014-05-06 | 04:19 | 04:32 | 31 | C7.2 | S13W86 | 12051 |
| 2014-05-13 | 21:53 | 22:24 | 74 | C6.8 | N06W21 | 12056 |
| 2014-05-11 | 04:33 | 04:43 | 16 | C6.4 | S11E44 | 12058 |
| 2014-05-22 | 03:04 | 03:10 | 10 | C6.4 | S19W07 | 12072 |
| 2014-05-06 | 22:45 | 22:53 | 15 | C6.2 | – | – |
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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130 flares of class C or larger in May 2014; by M/X count it ranks 318 of 565 months.