https://cryptanalys.is/difficulty/bitcoin_btc.php now shows 34,709,951,920 with just 7 hours on since I made that post. So its predictions this early in the piece are as you say, quite off the mark.
Might have quite an interesting result this round I feel.
I started to parse predictions from all the sites I know about at
http://nextdifficulty.com so you don't have to waste time switching between sites
I will also track predictions in time so it'll be possible to see which are useful and which are not. If you know about other sites predicting difficulty let me know I'll add them too
Well done.
Chances are rising for a very low increase this round, barring a datacenter coming online in the next week of course......