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.
It means that, on the weather side of the mountain, the air cools down much slower than what it warms up on the leeward side. The result is a dry and warmer air on the leeward side of the mountain. The effect is called a Foehn wind in Europe and a Chinook wind in US and Canada.