I'd never heard of 88L either, but I'm glad they finally denoted it as a test run -- those positions of 25 N and 83 W are pretty darn close to Florida! NRL and FNMOC hadn't picked up on it, though, so I was just going to wait it out and see what happened.

I'd bet on something getting going in early-mid July, but not now. We should be entering an active MJO phase by July, with the first signs of one kicking in the Indian Ocean now. I'm not the guru on that, though -- that's HF -- so I'll leave anything beyond that to him!