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Solar flares in March 2016
C-class11
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC3.72016-03-20
Sunspot number40.9NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2015 | 186 | 26 | 1 | X2.2 |
| March 2016 | 11 | 0 | 0 | C3.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-20 | 01:22 | 01:33 | 16 | C3.7 | – | – |
| 2016-03-09 | 12:36 | 12:50 | 30 | C3.3 | – | – |
| 2016-03-16 | 06:34 | 06:46 | 23 | C2.2 | – | – |
| 2016-03-28 | 02:18 | 02:28 | 14 | C2.1 | – | – |
| 2016-03-08 | 13:03 | 13:06 | 5 | C1.6 | S00W30 | 12511 |
| 2016-03-09 | 02:42 | 02:58 | 29 | C1.3 | – | – |
| 2016-03-20 | 00:40 | 00:49 | 25 | C1.2 | – | – |
| 2016-03-04 | 08:28 | 09:00 | 53 | C1.1 | N14W02 | 12514 |
| 2016-03-12 | 06:15 | 06:19 | 8 | C1.1 | N09W46 | 12513 |
| 2016-03-23 | 02:59 | 03:54 | 106 | C1.1 | – | – |
| 2016-03-15 | 15:32 | 15:38 | 11 | C1.0 | N20W15 | 12521 |
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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11 flares of class C or larger in March 2016; by M/X count it ranks 535 of 565 months.