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| SpaceWeatherLive |
....But who's counting? Well, I am! 😄
There were three more X-class flares since I last tallied them on 19 May (here). (I have edited that post to change the tally from 18 to 19, using the data from Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun.) This takes us to a very grand total of 22 for just the (supernatural) month of May! The last one sneaked in at the very last moment of the 31st....cheeky!
On the 27th, we had an X2.8:
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| Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun |
It was X1.4 on 29th:
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| Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun |
....with 27 C-class flares on the 28th!
Then, an X1.1 slid in during the final moments of 31 May:
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| Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun |
And for the first day of June, we just had the month's first X-class flare (X1.4):
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| Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun |
The main image at the top of this post shows the number of X-class flares for each year. With 7 more months of 2024 to go, it does look like the year will top the total for 2001.
Namarie! ☀️
PS. Please note that data from Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun differs from SpaceWeatherLive ~ the latter registers a total of 20 X-class flares for May 2024:
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