Litecoin is being difficulty coastered right now by a large BTC miner who mines and dumps every other difficulty period. It's inevitable with a 3.5 day retarget.
In other news it looks like I was right, we're looking at a -13% difficulty decrease right now which will put us below 3M.
I don't know -- since your OP it went up quite a bit, then down again (eventually).
Difficulty reset 2 days after the OP -- it was basically flat.
If I say the BTC price is tanking, am I "proven correct" if the price drops 10% up to
12 days later?
Isn't there a saying about a broken clock being right twice a day?