How is it possible for it to rain at night?

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I know it seems like an odd question but i’ve never found an answer. (or maybe just never fully understood the water cycle.)

This is what confuses me.

If evaporation occurs from the sun, and clouds begin to drop rain when they are “full,” How is it possible for it to rain in the middle of the night?
If a cloud is already full, why does it not rain til at night?
If its not full, then how is water being evaporated into the cloud at night?

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The sun doesn’t make water evaporate. Heat does. Heat from the sun, heat from machinery, residual heat… hot air holds more moisture. when the air cools it condenses and sheds some of the water it contains.

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