The International Space Station will fly over our area twice in the next two days, but the weather looks like it's only going to cooperate for one of those sighting opportunities. 

At 7:10 Thursday night, the ISS will become visible along the western horizon. Over the next four minutes it will rise more than two-thirds of the way up the sky to hit a maximum elevation 65º above the horizon. Remember, 90º is straight up in the sky and 0º is flat along the ground. Four minutes after appearing, the space station will fade away from view high in the northern sky. 

During this time of night, extra clouds will be rolling into our area ahead of our next weather system. You may still get a decent view of the International Space Station between the clouds, but that will be nearly impossible for the second flyover on Friday. 

Weather aside, the Friday flyover is better. The space station climbs higher in the sky and is visible for longer, but rain and clouds will block our view of that pass.