Why is their so much rain in "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy?

Question: Why is their so much rain in "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy!?

In the post- apocalypse state that the world is in, with no plants, and hardly any sun (blotted out by the ash most of the time) how is it possible that the water cycle is still occuring so frequently!? It seems almost like there's MORE precipitation in the world then!.!.!.!. Shouldn't things become more dry and barren!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Because the water cycle actually doesn't require anything much to occur, and it could definitely do without plants!. Basically, the way rain works is that it evaporates into the atmosphere, and then it condenses on tiny dust particles the atmostphere, forming tiny, tiny drops of water and making clouds where there's a lot of them all together!. Then, either more water condenses around the same dust particle, or multiple tiny droplets bump together to form bigger drops!. Then, when the drops get too big and heavy to stay up in the sky, they fall to earth as rain!. Therefore, there would be more rain if the apocalyptic event that occurred was something that released large quantities of smoke or ash into the air, then there would be more particles for raindrops to coalesce around!. It would be like a massive, worldwide version of what people do when they seed clouds to make it rain in places that have been undergoing droughts!. Plus, the ash clouds would keep quite a bit of heat in, meaning that it should have been warmer, providing a kind of greenhouse effect (not quite like global warming, but a similar principle) so there would have been plenty of heat to help perpetuate the water cycle!.

Or, maybe the author just decided it contributed to the setting =)Www@QuestionHome@Com