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Solar flares in August 2014
C-class120
M-class7
X-class0
LargestM5.92014-08-24
Sunspot number106.2NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2013 | 57 | 3 | 0 | M3.3 |
| August 2014 | 120 | 7 | 0 | M5.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-24 | 12:00 | 12:17 | 25 | M5.9 | S07E75 | 12151 |
| 2014-08-25 | 20:06 | 20:21 | 23 | M3.9 | – | – |
| 2014-08-21 | 13:19 | 13:31 | 23 | M3.4 | N15E86 | – |
| 2014-08-01 | 14:43 | 14:48 | 14 | M2.0 | – | – |
| 2014-08-25 | 14:46 | 15:11 | 45 | M2.0 | N05W36 | 12146 |
| 2014-08-01 | 17:55 | 18:13 | 53 | M1.5 | – | – |
| 2014-08-22 | 06:18 | 06:28 | 16 | M1.2 | N12E73 | 12149 |
| 2014-08-01 | 00:12 | 00:18 | 20 | C8.6 | S17E60 | 12132 |
| 2014-08-22 | 09:10 | 09:23 | 18 | C8.5 | N12E73 | 12149 |
| 2014-08-21 | 18:56 | 19:04 | 24 | C7.3 | N11E80 | – |
| 2014-08-31 | 12:07 | 12:11 | 7 | C7.1 | – | – |
| 2014-08-21 | 23:54 | 00:06 | 16 | C6.6 | – | – |
| 2014-08-22 | 12:44 | 12:57 | 17 | C6.4 | N12E71 | 12149 |
| 2014-08-22 | 15:40 | 15:52 | 22 | C6.2 | N08W03 | 12146 |
| 2014-08-23 | 17:19 | 17:27 | 12 | C6.0 | N10E56 | 12149 |
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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127 flares of class C or larger in August 2014; by M/X count it ranks 286 of 565 months.