A neighbor hiked up to Coyote Peak in Santa Teresa Park on 11/12/00 in the morning, expecting to get a nice view of the valley. The neighbor was disappointed to see an ugly brown inversion layer of smog hovering over the valley. The neighbor took the attached pictures. The neighbor suggested that the pictures seem to illustrate the point made by those meteorologists from Monterey. Coyote Peak is the highest point in the Santa Teresa Hills.

Picture of Bernal School at the bottom, with Santa Teresa Hospital, IBM, and downtown San Jose in the smog layer above it.

Picture of the hills of Santa Teresa Park and the Muriel Wright Center in the foreground with Communications Hill barely visible in the smog on the upper right.

Picture of view south down the Coyote Valley, obscured by haze, looking towards Morgan Hill. The hills below are owned by IBM. Cisco's site is to the left, but not visible.