The are playing with words probably unintentionally.
Storms can be cyclonic without producing tornadoes. A cyclonic storm (technically a cyclone) is a storm that rotates. Few of these produce tornadoes.
All that being said, it is one of the coolest periods I can recall in 26 years or so in southern kalifornia and western Arizona. Heater on this morning?? Come on!!
I have a heater on beside me and am wrapped up in a blanket.
Every year, the number of ground observers, (tornado-chaser traffic jams, now) plus ever-increasing availability of Doppler shear/rotation imaging RADARS, plus RADAR debris-cloud imaging modes, etc. -- means that more rotating air masses are being observed, detected and reported than ever before.
It is virtually guaranteed that the number of REPORTED vortices is increasing (and will continue to increase).
The same scrutiny applied to prior years' weather would also produce a larger number of reports.
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Doesn't necessarily mean that actual tornados are getting more numerous...
Been pushing 90 here in MO