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Solar flares in August 2016
C-class27
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM1.32016-08-07
Sunspot number50.4NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2015 | 119 | 11 | 0 | M5.6 |
| August 2016 | 27 | 1 | 0 | M1.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-07 | 14:37 | 14:44 | 11 | M1.3 | N09W67 | 12572 |
| 2016-08-09 | 00:34 | 00:42 | 18 | C8.9 | N03E67 | 12574 |
| 2016-08-07 | 15:03 | 15:09 | 13 | C8.5 | N09E82 | – |
| 2016-08-07 | 22:26 | 22:32 | 14 | C5.6 | – | – |
| 2016-08-08 | 10:36 | 10:44 | 14 | C5.6 | N08E72 | 12574 |
| 2016-08-08 | 02:35 | 03:01 | 42 | C3.3 | N09E75 | 12574 |
| 2016-08-08 | 09:05 | 09:21 | 22 | C3.1 | N06E73 | 12574 |
| 2016-08-08 | 08:36 | 08:44 | 25 | C2.8 | N14W76 | 12572 |
| 2016-08-09 | 08:47 | 08:55 | 13 | C2.5 | N04E59 | 12574 |
| 2016-08-07 | 13:28 | 13:38 | 21 | C2.4 | – | – |
| 2016-08-11 | 16:32 | 16:44 | 31 | C2.4 | N04E30 | 12574 |
| 2016-08-29 | 03:34 | 03:46 | 28 | C2.2 | N11W27 | 12579 |
| 2016-08-31 | 20:10 | 20:19 | 29 | C2.2 | – | – |
| 2016-08-07 | 21:43 | 21:49 | 13 | C2.1 | – | – |
| 2016-08-08 | 20:13 | 20:18 | 33 | C1.7 | N14W30 | 12571 |
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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28 flares of class C or larger in August 2016; by M/X count it ranks 441 of 565 months.