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That far south in Georgia, even inland, seems to have a bit more widespread pine forest than Central LA. Alexandria looks more like Macon than Albany.
Hmmmm, I've driven through southwest GA many times to visit my brother in AL, and I remember it having more deciduous trees than pine trees. Here's a street view from about fifty miles south of Columbus:
There were quite a few pine trees, but a lot of deciduous trees as well. I seem to recall RAlex posting up picture of cypress trees with Spanish Moss on them around the Alexandria area. I've never seen anything close to that around the Macon area.
I -20 west of Monroe is just full of Pines and quite similar to what you can see in GA (and really the rest of the south). I think a lot of people envision Louisiana as the swamps and bayous (which a large part is) but a lot of it is just like the rest of the southeast.
Houma is located south of New Orleans, Folkston is close to Jacksonville,FL
Absolute farthest south towns are, for Louisiana: Pilottown
and for Georgia: St.George.
St.George is due west of Jacksonville on the St. Mary River,
it has warmest average January high in Georgia at 68F / 20C
Pilottown is on the Mississippi River just before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico,
it's lows I expect are warmer, though I bet it's highs are cooler than St.George.
Warmest "lows" in Georgia are along the coast of it's islands,
Sea Island, Jekyll Island, St.Simons....etc
I also want to point out that Georgia, though not as swampy as Louisiana,
does have a huge alligator infested swamp area at Okefenokee Swamp,
I went out of my way to visit and got some good video of gators.
I also visited Brunswick Jekyll Island area, stayed in Kingsland,GA at FL state line
and checked out Savannah and Savannah Beach,
also stayed in Valdosta,GA and Cordele,GA
I have visited Louisiana too...entering the state at Texas state line near Shreveport,
travelling SE stopping at Alexandria, staying in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Take away north Georgia's higher mountainous elevation section (from Atlanta north)
then it's pretty much a tie, maybe edge to Georgia.
If you took away the northern third of Georgia, it would be close. Still, the areas south and east of New Orleans are most likely warmer than any place in Georgia. Grand Isle, Louisiana averages several degrees warmer in winter than the Sea Islands/Golden Isles of Georgia do. Plaquemines Parish extends pretty far out into the Gulf and the Chandeleur Islands are distant from the Louisiana mainland whereas Georgia's barrier islands basically hug the mainland. I think that alone gives the edge to Louisiana having the warmer climate even if you take north Georgia out of the equation.
Yeah, I've always associated pine forests with hills.
Wow. There are lots of flat areas with pine forests in Georgia.
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