PHOTOS: Rain, fog, lighting and wind. Take a look at Long Beach and our fall weather

People who are helplessly trapped living outside of Southern California defend their plight as if it was a matter of choice: “I like having weather,” they lie, as if they truly believe that there’s something attractive about brutal and debilitating winters where they live and pray for the mercury to soar back to zero. Or that there’s something to admire about soul-crushing and outlandishly humid summers.

In Long Beach, we have weather, too. The only difference between our weather and the idiotic weather in other states is that our weather tends to be perfect all the time.

Rain? We get some every once in a while, but not enough to cause too much havoc.

The fog will roll in on occasion, but we survive.

The wind blows sometimes, and knocks over our lawn furniture but it doesn’t blow houses into the sea.

And when these meteorological phenomena take place here, we revel in it. An inch of rain in a day will wipe out all divisiveness in conversation as the chatter turns to the weather. Same with wind and fog and the other types of weather we get here especially in the fall.

Our squad of Post photographers turned their lenses toward the weather this month.

Enjoy it. We love our weather.