A typical mid-September morning. 55°F, sunny.
I don't remember how the weather was 16 years ago, but I'm fairly certain it was nice out, because I remember hanging out with with my friends after school and talking about what happened earlier in the day.
I was sitting in history class when they came over the PA system and told the school what happened. It was just after the initial attacks but before the towers collapsed. My history teacher wouldn't turn on the tv for us, though the class asked her to multiple times. Still wish she would've. What was happening in that present time is now in school history books.
Instead, all we really knew was the short announcement on the PA system that the pentagon and some buildings in New York were attacked. As far as I can remember, we were never updated that the buildings collapsed. Never told about the fourth plane. Never really told about the size of the attack, but most of us figured out that it had to be big, even though this was in the time before you could just look it up on your phone. We had no way to find anything else out. Everything could just be rumors as far as we knew. I didn't know what really happened until I got home and turned the tv on.