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.
Our local weather girl, however, always uses it to refer to the HOTTEST city on the map. She does this every evening and it bothers me. Even when the hottest city is a some-what-uncomfortably warm temperature, she'll decribe it as balmy. 90 degrees (in northern michigan) seems HOT to me, not balmy.