The weather in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, was beautiful -- a clear and pleasant late-summer day that was marred by the smoke of burning jet fuel and billowing clouds of pulverized dust from collapsed skyscrapers after a terrorist attack was carried out against the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, the worst such attack ever on United States soil.

Hours before terrorists flew hijacked jetliners into the twin towers, the weather was turbulent. Even ominous. A series of thunderstorms rumbled through New York City on Monday, Sept. 10, and hundreds of miles to the east of the city, a massive hurricane loomed off the coast.

Footage of the storms was caught on video by a New York City-based artist who had been using studio space near the top of the North Tower that she and 15 other a

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