Regarding high latency from Los Angeles/surrounding area

[Rapture]

Traceroute taken just now. The massive latency spikes only on S-E's network have returned.

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 001.131-78-65.ftth.swbr.surewest.net [65.78.131.1]
3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.22.4.13
4 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.21.1.9
5 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.21.0.254
6 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms te-7-1.car1.Sacramento1.Level3.net [4.53.200.37]
7 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms ae-11-11.car2.Sacramento1.Level3.net [4.69.132.150]
8 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms ae-4-4.ebr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.132.158]
9 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms ae-62-62.csw1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.153.18]
10 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms ae-1-60.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net [4.69.152.16]
11 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms te0-3-0-2.ccr21.sjc03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.13.49]
12 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms be2000.ccr21.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.105]
13 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms be2166.mpd21.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.28.69]
14 50 ms 50 ms 51 ms be2134.mpd21.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.38]
15 56 ms 56 ms 57 ms be2157.ccr22.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.118]
16 81 ms 80 ms 81 ms be2080.ccr22.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.42.6] - Toronto, Canada
17 83 ms 83 ms 83 ms be2090.ccr21.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30.206] - Montreal, Canada
18 83 ms 82 ms 82 ms 38.122.42.34 - Montreal, Canada (Ormuco Fiber bandwidth provisioning from Cogent)
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 142 ms 186 ms 146 ms 192.34.76.2 - Montreal, Canada (Ormuco Fiber bandwidth provisioning to Square Enix NA Datacenter)
21 152 ms 157 ms 156 ms 199.91.189.234 - Montreal, Canada (Square Enix NA Datacenter)
22 156 ms 151 ms 153 ms 199.91.189.39 - Montreal, Canada (Square Enix NA Datacenter, FFXIV Behemoth Server)

Nominally these last three hops @ S-E's NA Datacenter are ~82ms as can be seen from my some of my previous traceroutes. This same latency spike starting from 192.34.76.2 Ormuco Fiber [AS20324] can be seen from Level 3 backbone's 10GigE+ Looking Glass trace: http://imageshack.us/a/img716/3203/r5h5.png