Six flares of the penultimate power class were recorded on the Sun on February 3. This was reported by the Institute of Applied Geophysics FGBU "IPG".
The first flare occurred at night.
On February 3 at 00:08 Moscow time, in the X-ray range, a flare M3.3 lasting 35 minutes was recorded in sunspot group 4366 (N16E27).
The M2.5 flare occurred at 02:27 Moscow time and lasted 10 minutes. It was followed by four more solar explosions: M1.5 (04:49 Moscow time, 35 minutes), M1.8 (07:22 Moscow time, 27 minutes), M2.6 (08:55 Moscow time, 27 minutes) and M7.2 (10:01 Moscow time, 35 minutes). All five flares occurred in the same sunspot group 4366 (N13E16).
Record activity was observed on the Sun on February 2. Astronomers recorded as many as three flares of the most powerful X class.