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Solar flares in October 2014
C-class146
M-class41
X-class6
LargestX3.12014-10-24
Sunspot number92.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2013 | 190 | 33 | 4 | X2.3 |
| October 2014 | 146 | 41 | 6 | X3.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-24 | 21:07 | 21:41 | 66 | X3.1 | – | – |
| 2014-10-26 | 10:04 | 10:56 | 74 | X2.0 | S18W40 | 12192 |
| 2014-10-27 | 14:12 | 14:47 | 57 | X2.0 | S17W52 | 12192 |
| 2014-10-22 | 14:02 | 14:28 | 48 | X1.6 | S14E13 | 12192 |
| 2014-10-19 | 04:17 | 05:03 | 91 | X1.1 | S10E58 | 12192 |
| 2014-10-25 | 16:55 | 17:08 | 76 | X1.0 | S03E58 | 12196 |
| 2014-10-22 | 01:16 | 01:59 | 72 | M8.7 | – | – |
| 2014-10-02 | 18:49 | 19:01 | 25 | M7.3 | S17W82 | 12173 |
| 2014-10-27 | 00:06 | 00:34 | 38 | M7.1 | S14W44 | 12192 |
| 2014-10-27 | 09:59 | 10:09 | 27 | M6.7 | S18W48 | 12192 |
| 2014-10-28 | 03:23 | 03:32 | 18 | M6.6 | S14W61 | 12192 |
| 2014-10-20 | 16:00 | 16:37 | 55 | M4.5 | S14E37 | 12192 |
| 2014-10-16 | 12:58 | 13:03 | 7 | M4.3 | – | – |
| 2014-10-26 | 18:07 | 18:15 | 13 | M4.2 | – | – |
| 2014-10-24 | 07:37 | 07:48 | 16 | M4.0 | – | – |
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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193 flares of class C or larger in October 2014; by M/X count it ranks 49 of 565 months.