In terms of visibility, you probably saw the effects translated into especially nice weather in Southern California in the first week of March. The sun also "darkened." This is called, in English, "night time", giving the impression that less light is reaching the earth, whereas in fact what you experienced then, probably after midnight, was turning in for the night and having quite a restful sleep.

Other space toy developers also began to suffer allergies in the first week of March, although we hoped to mitigate the worst effects with the now popular allergy medicine, "Alavert."