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Solar flares in June 2016
C-class6
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC6.52016-06-11
Sunspot number17.4NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | 132 | 10 | 0 | M7.9 |
| June 2016 | 6 | 0 | 0 | C6.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-11 | 21:59 | 22:28 | 44 | C6.5 | – | – |
| 2016-06-13 | 05:33 | 05:52 | 45 | C3.0 | – | – |
| 2016-06-12 | 20:30 | 20:40 | 22 | C1.8 | – | – |
| 2016-06-19 | 11:44 | 11:58 | 25 | C1.7 | – | – |
| 2016-06-09 | 12:28 | 12:34 | 9 | C1.5 | N14W42 | 12552 |
| 2016-06-09 | 15:03 | 15:14 | 14 | C1.1 | N14W45 | 12552 |
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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6 flares of class C or larger in June 2016; by M/X count it ranks 537 of 565 months.