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Solar flares in October 2018
C-class1
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC1.12018-10-12
Sunspot number4.5NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2017 | 2 | 1 | 0 | M1.6 |
| October 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | C1.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-12 | 14:03 | 14:08 | 10 | C1.1 | – | – |
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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1 flares of class C or larger in October 2018; by M/X count it ranks 554 of 565 months.