Weather: Eastern Canada hit with mixed weather https://share.google/XKfd1blGzruWHxh8N

Listening to the 6pm CTV news and weather on 1010 this evening and the weather person, I think it was Jessica Smith, reporting on the build up of "ice secretions" and the word "secretions" caught my attention because a) I was unaware ice could secrete anything and b) it's such a weird word to use when reporting the weather.

So I googled it and it seems CTV refers in print and on-air to both "ice secretions" and the possibly more accurate meteorological term which is "ice accretions."

Is "secretion" the norm? Is this a Canadian thing or a CTV thing?

I know there's ice pancakes, ice apples, all sorts of cool and beautiful freezing water phenomena. But "ice secretions"?

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