| The great storm of 15–16 October 1987 SD Burt, DA Mansfield Weather 43 (3), 90-110, 1988 | 110 | 1988 |
| The weather observer's handbook S Burt Cambridge University Press, 2024 | 84 | 2024 |
| Cloudburst upon Hendraburnick down: the Boscastle storm of 16 August 2004 S Burt Weather 60 (8), 219-227, 2005 | 67 | 2005 |
| The August 2003 heatwave in the United Kingdom: Part 1–Maximum temperatures and historical precedents S Burt Weather 59 (8), 199-208, 2004 | 64 | 2004 |
| Hourly weather observations from the Scottish Highlands (1883–1904) rescued by volunteer citizen scientists E Hawkins, S Burt, P Brohan, M Lockwood, H Richardson, M Roy, ... Geoscience Data Journal 6 (2), 160-173, 2019 | 60 | 2019 |
| Oxford weather and climate since 1767 S Burt, T Burt Oxford University Press, 2019 | 49 | 2019 |
| Millions of historical monthly rainfall observations taken in the UK and Ireland rescued by citizen scientists E Hawkins, S Burt, M McCarthy, C Murphy, C Ross, M Baldock, J Brazier, ... Geoscience Data Journal 10 (2), 246-261, 2023 | 43 | 2023 |
| Multiple airwaves crossing Britain and Ireland following the eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai on 15 January 2022 S Burt Weather 77 (3), 76-81, 2022 | 42 | 2022 |
| Falls of dust rain within the British Isles S Burt Weather 46 (11), 347-353, 1991 | 35 | 1991 |
| Rescuing historical weather observations improves quantification of severe windstorm risks E Hawkins, P Brohan, SN Burgess, S Burt, GP Compo, SL Gray, ID Haigh, ... Natural hazards and earth system sciences 23 (4), 1465-1482, 2023 | 29 | 2023 |
| A new North Atlantic low pressure record SD Burt Weather 42 (2), 53-56, 1987 | 28 | 1987 |
| Response times of meteorological air temperature sensors S Burt, M de Podesta Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 146 (731), 2789-2800, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
| The August 2003 heatwave in the United Kingdom. Part 2–the hottest sites S Burt, P Eden Weather 59 (9), 239-246, 2004 | 27 | 2004 |
| The exceptional hot spell of early August 1990 in the United Kindgom S Burt International journal of climatology 12 (6), 547-567, 1992 | 23 | 1992 |
| How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather T Kelder, D Heinrich, L Klok, V Thompson, HMD Goulart, E Hawkins, ... Nature Communications 16 (1), 2382, 2025 | 22 | 2025 |
| Meteorological responses in the atmospheric boundary layer over southern England to the deep partial eclipse of 20 March 2015 S Burt Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| British rainfall 1860-1993. S Burt | 20 | 2010 |
| Another new North Atlantic low pressure record S Burt Weather 48 (4), 98-103, 1993 | 20 | 1993 |
| The Lowest of the Lows… extremes of barometric pressure in the British Isles, part 1–the deepest depressions S Burt Weather 62 (1), 4-14, 2007 | 18 | 2007 |
| Extreme rainfall in Cumbria, 18-20 November 2009 P Eden, S Burt Weather 65 (1), 14-14, 2010 | 17 | 2010 |
Ed HawkinsNational Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of ReadingVerified email at reading.ac.uk
