1 When you first get a bruise, it's kind of reddish as the blood appears under the skin.  Within 1 or 2 days, the hemoglobin (an iron-containing substance that carries oxygen) in the blood changes and your bruise turns bluish-purple or even blackish.
balmy-mild and pleasant; balmy days and nights; the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth; a soft breeze. mild, soft. clement - (of weather or climate) physically mild; clement weather.
(I have read this thread on these questions ) In a book that I came across, the question. 'what's the weather like?' is answered with the following: It's sunny/hazy/foggy/clear/smoggy/windy/humid/muggy/raining/drizzling/snowing.