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.
An easterly is a wind blowing from the East... generally towards the west. Polar signifies that it originated in the Arctic circle, where the weather is generally extreâ¦mely cold. Polar easterlies are therefore very cold winds that sweep across the northern hemisphere in a largely westward direction. The rotation of the earth means that they are the generally prevailing winds in northern latitudes. Polar easterlies are winds near the poles that blow in an easterly direction.