I know there are issues with comparing one day's worth of activity against monthly averages.
But out of curiosity I've tabulated how much blocking has happened in the past day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aude/adminactivity
This is to compare with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Durin/Admin_activity#Top_twenty_for_time_p...
It seems the amount of blocks has gone up quite a bit since January. Compare Can't sleep clown will eat me's blocks for the two time periods. Or it could be higher, because today was a school day.