I don't find this surprising nor a reason for celebration. This is caused due to several things:
1) Miners not following user/economy consensus by not implementing Segwit.
2) Increased usage demand.
3) Spam attack.
It is very easy to make the mempool go "crazy" if there is no more capacity within the blocks and the demand suddenly increases. Additionally, we shouldn't price fees in USD (as will do in this thread) due to the constant increase in the price.
Hooray for 220 satoshis per byte fees.
There's nothing wrong with that, and it won't likely change until we see Segwit getting adopted.