Do a deep watering first, then throw everything down the next day or so. The residual water with the right cover should keep everything ready for germination in about 10 days.
Trying to find the discussion for this in my Chrome history, but the corrected output has us peaking at +1.85, still a solid El Nino, but not record breaking.
Looks like I have 2 weeks to get the rest of my yard projects wrapped up for the year!
Trying to figure out the right timing to throw some grass seed down as well.