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Solar flares in August 2020
C-class2
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC2.02020-08-15
Sunspot number7.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-15 | 06:32 | 06:47 | 27 | C2.0 | – | – |
| 2020-08-08 | 03:42 | 03:49 | 12 | C1.5 | – | – |
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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2 flares of class C or larger in August 2020; by M/X count it ranks 558 of 565 months.