So what does La Niña/el nino typically mean for Cleveland??

la Niña typically means wetter, milder temps for much of Ohio, correct? 
so with more precipitation and warmer/milder temps that means a more active lake mostly right? Milder means the lake doesn’t freeze as quickly.. therefore intensifying lake affect snow? However.. El Niño keeps us colder but drier? Colder means whatever precipitation does come will likely be snow. 
 

how does moderate, strong and weak La Nina’s differ for us? As well as that of El Niño?

i was looking at cleveland snow records going as far back as 1969-1970 up to 2020-2021. There’s no obvious pattern apparent ti me other than a few things..

very strong El Niño usually give us much lower snow averages. There’s been 3 of those in my decades I’ve mentioned and all turned out low snow averages. 
strong La Nina’s seem to bring us slightly higher snow totals. Moderate La Niña seems to be about average totals. Weak La Niña seems to vary as well as weak El Niño’s. 

just trying to find anyone patterns or things to look at.

another thing work mentioning:

in the 1969-2021 time frame, the highest recorded total was 117.9 and that was the winter of 2004-2005. This was a Weak El Niño. The next highest was 101.1 in 1995-1996, this was a moderate La Niña season. Then 100.5 inches in 1981-1982 and this was a non La Niña/El nino event. But the next highest recorded that was one pattern or another was at 95.7 inches in 2002-2003 = moderate El Niño. Another 90 inches was brought by a weak El Niño in 1977-1978.

seems weak El Niño’s bring about some of the highest snow totals but have also brought significantly lower totals as well. Like the 35.2 inches in 2018-2019. 
 

doesn’t seem like there’s really any common theme though an that both systems vary at any given strength. 
Maybe these aren’t so important after all for places like Cleveland ??