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Solar flares in November 2016
C-class9
M-class2
X-class0
LargestM1.22016-11-29
Sunspot number22.4NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2015 | 72 | 4 | 0 | M3.9 |
| November 2016 | 9 | 2 | 0 | M1.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-29 | 23:29 | 23:38 | 11 | M1.2 | S08E52 | 12615 |
| 2016-11-29 | 17:19 | 17:23 | 7 | M1.0 | S07E55 | 12615 |
| 2016-11-29 | 07:03 | 07:10 | 9 | C7.5 | S08E62 | – |
| 2016-11-30 | 01:14 | 01:19 | 9 | C6.0 | S08E51 | 12615 |
| 2016-11-30 | 02:09 | 02:22 | 15 | C3.1 | S08E51 | 12615 |
| 2016-11-29 | 12:05 | 12:13 | 29 | C2.6 | S07E63 | 12615 |
| 2016-11-30 | 15:22 | 15:25 | 5 | C2.3 | S07E43 | 12615 |
| 2016-11-29 | 22:57 | 23:17 | 29 | C1.9 | S07E50 | 12615 |
| 2016-11-28 | 07:55 | 08:01 | 8 | C1.4 | – | – |
| 2016-11-29 | 16:36 | 16:41 | 12 | C1.1 | S07E55 | 12615 |
| 2016-11-30 | 15:00 | 15:07 | 11 | C1.0 | S07E43 | 12615 |
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 November 2016; by M/X count it ranks 401 of 565 months.