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• s  informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  it used to drive my husband balmy
• s  mild and pleasant
  balmy days and nights

• Nope, although a 1998 study showed that Midwesterners think folks living in balmy California are happier and that Californians incorrectly believe this about themselves too.
• A balmy summer night, small children with oversize mitts dreaming of foul balls, peanuts, Cracker Jack and the familiar Take Me Out to the Ball Game played during the seventh .
• LIQUID GOLD: The wines at Disznk Tokaji, sheltered by the foothills of the Carpathian mountains, has a singularly balmy microclimate.

• barmy
• bats
• batty
• bonkers
• buggy
• cracked
• crackers
• daft
• dotty
• fruity
• haywire
• kooky
• kookie
• loco
• loony
• loopy
• nuts
• nutty
• round the bend
• around the bend
• wacky
• whacky
• mild
• soft

News & Articles

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• Australian attempting Cuba to Florida swim
  Australian endurance athlete Chloe McCardel jumped feet-first into calm, balmy waters off Cuba on Wednesday and began stroking steadily out to sea in a bid to make a record swim from Havana to Florida without a protective shark cage.
  June 12, 2013 - ESPN
• Australian swimmer sets off from Cuba for Florida
  HAVANA (AP) -- Australian endurance athlete Chloe McCardel jumped feet-first into calm, balmy waters off Cuba on Wednesday and began stroking steadily out to sea in a bid to make a record swim from Havana to Florida without a protective shark cage.
  June 12, 2013 - The Associated Press via Yahoo! Sports
• Australian swimmer sets off from Cuba for Fla.
  Australian endurance athlete Chloe McCardel is stroking steadily through the balmy waters off Cuba in an attempt to become the first person to swim from Havana to Florida without a protective shark cage.   McCardel says she expects to spend about 60 hours in the sea before reaching the Florida Keys, a little more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the northeast.   On the way she'll be braving ...
  June 12, 2013 - WFTV 9 Orlando

Quotes

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• Bill Belichick in San Francisco Chronicle
  It wasn't a balmy day, I'm not saying that, but it wasn't bad,Belichick said.
• Ryan Church in MLB.com
  I think it was being at peace with things, and knowing I had some days to rest up,Church said. "Basically it was getting treatment and staying off of it. But once I got down there, in the balmy 120-degree weather with the humidity, it...
• Peter Doran in Newswise (press release)
  Basically the game plan this week is to test the vehicle's performance in a cold ice-covered environment,Doran said. "Up to now it's only been tested in relatively balmy environments like Texas and Mexico. We want to see what issues may...