thermalr fly <<email>> sends:

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=25&month=02&year=2008

The afternoon sky darkened. Grey clouds billowed to the heavens. Thunder shook the ground and lightning danced overhead. The first droplets of heavy rain were just hitting the ground when the spaceship flew by...

This really happened on Feb. 5th when the International Space Station (ISS) flew over western Africa during an afternoon thunderstorm in Mali.