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Solar flares in January 2019
C-class13
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC8.22019-01-30
Sunspot number8.3NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C1.4 |
| January 2019 | 13 | 0 | 0 | C8.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-30 | 05:56 | 06:11 | 23 | C8.2 | – | – |
| 2019-01-26 | 13:12 | 13:21 | 22 | C7.7 | – | – |
| 2019-01-29 | 21:17 | 21:29 | 31 | C3.2 | – | – |
| 2019-01-29 | 10:27 | 10:34 | 13 | C3.0 | – | – |
| 2019-01-06 | 10:22 | 10:51 | 38 | C2.5 | – | – |
| 2019-01-30 | 11:14 | 11:24 | 18 | C2.1 | – | – |
| 2019-01-30 | 16:59 | 17:05 | 8 | C1.5 | – | – |
| 2019-01-26 | 16:12 | 16:28 | 23 | C1.3 | – | – |
| 2019-01-29 | 07:15 | 07:36 | 27 | C1.3 | – | – |
| 2019-01-30 | 10:27 | 10:38 | 16 | C1.3 | – | – |
| 2019-01-06 | 05:32 | 05:46 | 30 | C1.2 | – | – |
| 2019-01-31 | 00:50 | 00:58 | 13 | C1.1 | – | – |
| 2019-01-25 | 04:05 | 04:11 | 18 | C1.0 | – | – |
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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13 flares of class C or larger in January 2019; by M/X count it ranks 555 of 565 months.