balmy
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But the temperature in Lake Annecy in the summer is a balmy 25C to 27C.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The shocking incident barely registered in the US news, dominated that balmy July 2 night by the wedding of pop superstar Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden on the other side of Manhattan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
That’s because the global maps most of us are used to are as deceptive as icy Greenland’s euphemistically balmy name.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026
The Marina Safeway opened its doors on a balmy summer day in 1959.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
It was a balmy summer evening, perfect for the motorcycle, and Shawn said I should ride home with him, we’d get the car tomorrow.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Unfortunately, the same draws that make it a walkable gawk for touristas of every stripe makes it a frustrating exercise in perambulation for locals — kind of like New York’s Times Square with balmier weather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
In places like North America, the balmier climate means more pockets of water in the glaciers, which can thwart radar measurements.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
And that was balmier than had been predicted.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2022
Weather patterns can change because the colder poles warm faster than balmier lower latitudes.
From Economist ● Jul. 28, 2018
The air is decidedly balmier, but that's not all; there's a kind of buzzing energy.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
Residents in Warsaw enjoyed the balmiest start to the year since 1999, with a high of 66 degrees Fahrenheit.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
In London, where the lifting of restrictions coincided with the balmiest weather of the summer, sunbathers near Liverpool Station voiced a mixture of relief and anxiety as the country ventured into uncharted territory.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2021
Their last studio album, 2011′s Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, piped up with some of the balmiest major key tunes Mogwai’s crafted to date.
From Time ● Jan. 24, 2014
Even an idyllic setting, one of the balmiest Paris springtimes in memory, and France's justly famed cuisine may do little to palliate what—judging from the seemingly interminable preliminaries—is likely to be a depressing, long-drawn ordeal.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is huddled in a sheltered nest on the fringe of a land of milk and honey; it has the advantage of a spread of level beach, and rejoices in the balmiest of climes.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
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