Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 2006
C150
M10
X4
LargestX9.02006-12-05
M/X flares by month
- January 2006
- March 2006
- April 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- July 2006
- August 2006
- September 2006
- November 2006
- December 2006
Nearby years (M + X)
331
231
180
134
121
14
10
1
0
23
119
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-12-05 | 10:18 | 10:35 | 27 | X9.0 | S07E68 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-06 | 18:29 | 18:47 | 31 | X6.5 | S05E64 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-13 | 02:14 | 02:40 | 43 | X3.4 | S06W23 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-14 | 21:07 | 22:15 | 79 | X1.5 | S06W46 | 10930 |
| 2006-04-27 | 15:22 | 15:52 | 36 | M7.9 | S08E26 | 10875 |
| 2006-12-06 | 08:02 | 08:23 | 61 | M6.0 | S04E63 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-06 | 20:14 | 20:19 | 8 | M3.5 | S06E58 | 10930 |
| 2006-07-06 | 08:13 | 08:36 | 38 | M2.5 | S09W34 | 10898 |
| 2006-12-07 | 18:20 | 19:13 | 73 | M2.0 | S06E45 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-05 | 07:45 | 08:03 | 21 | M1.8 | S07E73 | 10930 |
| 2006-04-06 | 05:22 | 05:33 | 14 | M1.4 | – | 10865 |
| 2006-04-26 | 16:51 | 17:02 | 19 | M1.3 | S08E38 | 10875 |
| 2006-04-06 | 20:33 | 20:42 | 17 | M1.2 | S07W61 | 10865 |
| 2006-12-06 | 01:30 | 02:20 | 84 | M1.1 | – | 10930 |
| 2006-04-07 | 07:57 | 08:03 | 8 | C9.7 | S16W44 | 10867 |
| 2006-04-26 | 14:32 | 14:53 | 26 | C9.1 | S08E39 | 10875 |
| 2006-11-06 | 17:43 | 17:46 | 23 | C8.8 | – | – |
| 2006-04-05 | 15:14 | 15:21 | 10 | C8.1 | S17W22 | 10867 |
| 2006-04-26 | 13:42 | 13:56 | 23 | C7.7 | S08E40 | 10875 |
| 2006-12-06 | 21:44 | 21:52 | 11 | C7.4 | S06E57 | 10930 |
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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164 flares of class C+ in 2006: 10 M-class and 4 X-class.